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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... Population Early phases of the American state-formation process Conclusion But Westward, Look, the Land is Bright: From Frontier to Empire Manifest destiny and latent dynamics: a necessary theoretical digression The balance between the ...
... population, decaying roads, declining long-distance trade and repeated invasions by marauding bands — was that the only means kings then had of paying subordinates to administer distant territories was to give them the land from which ...
... population, in a spiral process. Internal pacification of territory facilitates trade, which facilitates the growth of towns and division of labour and generates taxes which support larger administrative and military organizations ...
... population would reform these regions, and make them 'polished and subordinate'. The government neither could nor should seek to crack down hard: 'better it should wink at these irregularities than that it should use means inconsistent ...
... population of the colonies that came not from Britain but from other parts of Europe; though it was later to embarrass him, in 1749 Benjamin Franklin expressed alarm at Americans' Britishness being diluted by the influx of German ...