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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... less restrained, the commands direct: don't slurp; don't put gnawed bones back in the common pot; don't blow your nose on the tablecloth; don't urinate on the staircase. Over and over again, down the centuries, the same good and bad ...
... less smoothly within him or her, through a selfrestraint which operates to a certain degree even against his or her conscious wishes. (Elias, 2000: 109) The advance of the threshold of shame and embarrassment (or repugnance) thus ...
... less easy to come to terms with the sheer pleasure warriors then derived from cruelty, from the torment and destruction of other human beings. Long into the Middle Ages, the mutilation of prisoners was practised with evident relish. So ...
... less probably, in cash) from peasants and tradesmen. Such tributes, equally, are the necessary means by which an armed band can be maintained, its monopoly established and its territory extended. To call them taxation at this early ...
... less continuous warfare between neighbouring magnates in the European Middle Ages is not to be explained primarily by the aggressive psychological characteristics of warlords. In an age when power was so directly correlated with the ...