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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... one's nose, sleeping, having sex are things that human beings cannot biologically avoid doing, no matter what society, culture or age they live in. All societies have always had some conventions about how they should be handled — there ...
... one's spoon or smack one's lips noisily. Everyone took food from a common dish, placed it on a plate or a trencher of bread and ate with the fingers, but it was bad manners to put something one had chewed back in the pot. One should not ...
... one's behaviour increased. To Caxton, in the late fifteenth century, it was already evident that social standards ... one's fingers, which was 'distasteful to behold'. The rule about not eating with one's hands was not at first as ...
... one's social superiors. Only after a long period of transition did shame in such matters come in the nineteenth century also to be felt by the superior in the presence of inferiors, and as the standard came to apply more equally to all ...
... the agents of the monopoly do not consider it so, and take action to assert their monopoly. Less abstractly, if one commits an act of violence against one's neighbour within the territory of an effective state, one must reckon.