The American Civilizing ProcessJohn Wiley & Sons, 2013/04/24 - 400 ページ Since 9/11, the American government has presumed to speak and act in the name of ‘civilization’. But isthat how the rest of the world sees it? And if not, why not? Stephen Mennell leads up to such contemporary questions through a careful study of the whole span of American development, from the first settlers to the American Empire. He takes a novel approach, analysing the USA’s experience in the light of Norbert Elias’s theory of civilizing (and decivilizing) processes. Drawing comparisons between the USA and other countries of the world, the topics discussed include:
Mennell shows how the long-term experience of Americans has been of growing more and more powerful in relation to their neighbours. This has had all-pervasive effects on the way they see themselves, their perception of the rest of the world, and how the rest of the world sees them. Mennell’s compelling and provocative account will appeal to anyone concerned about America's role in the world today, including students and scholars of American politics and society. |
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... United States? Or, if not literally none, then very little. One reason why Elias's work may not have achieved the resonance in the USA that it has elsewhere is the long tradition of 'American exceptionalism'. From John Winthrop's vision ...
... United States is almost the last bastion among advanced democratic nations of capital punishment.1 In most parts of America, the laws and social customs strongly restrain people from doing harm to themselves and others by smoking — yet ...
... The mother country of the United States was England in the first half of the seventeenth century, or, at most, England before the Revolution of 1688. (1901: 1) The early colonists' minds were thus furnished not just with.
... United States, and could seem even barely plausible only to someone whose preoccupation was principally with the history of political ideas rather than with the development of social structures, institutions and people's social ...
... United States and the rest of the world repeatedly referred to 'civilization' and 'the civilized world'. President George W. Bush, in a proclamation, declared that 'Civilized people around the world denounce the evildoers who devised ...