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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... elite circles in the sixteenth century, but took centuries to trickle down the social scale. By 1560 it was more common for each guest to have his or her own spoon. By the late seventeenth century, one no longer ate soup directly from ...
... elite; for it was what Elias (following Georg Simmel) termed a 'two-front stratum'. With the growth of absolutist monarchies in France and Spain, and later in Prussia, Austria and other states of the Holy Roman Empire and Italy ...
... elite in the USA to the extent that there was in many Western European societies, but rather a number of competing centres. Nevertheless, the tendency of many earlier writers — perhaps especially European observers — to give great ...
... elite. Both Jefferson and John Adams viewed such an elite as self-serving and standing in need of being kept under control, although the two men differed in subtle ways about how that should be achieved. After their reconciliation in ...
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