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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... argued: Wherever organic life occurs there must have been some seed for that life. . . . It is just as improbable that free local institutions should spring up without a germ along American shores as that English wheat should have grown ...
... argued that aggressiveness and impulses towards cruelty and ready resort to violence — not unlike eating behaviour or the 'natural functions' — underwent a long-term process of moulding, curbing and tamingl2 They too came to find ...
... argued that as chains of interdependence become longer and webs denser, a gradual shift takes place in the balance between external constraints and self-constraints in the habitual steering of people's behaviour. The social web formed ...
... argued — indeed it was argued at the time — that this current of thought in the early Republic fostered an underestimate of the continuing need for an effective state monopolization of the means of violence, possibly with long-term ...
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