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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... appear to have been set first in courtly circles around great lords. Later, the audience for the books widened to include provincial knights and nobility — and even the higher bourgeoisie who might aspire to join the court and to ...
... appears to modern readers who have been brought up to think of the settlers as egalitarian. Correct behaviour and its relation to social rank appear to have become more of a problem in Europe at the time of the Renaissance. In the ...
... appear to be more common in America than in Europe. Comparison between the USA and Western Europe is another thread running through the book, and with it the old question of 'American exceptionalism', which is too often framed in terms ...
... appears to take for granted an American habitus in which a strong and stable habitual self-constraint stands almost alone in the steering of conduct, requiring little support from the forces of external constraint by other people ...
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