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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... term trend became evident towards more elaborate codes of behaviour, towards more demanding standards of habitual ... terms for good behaviour — courtesy, courtoisie, cortezia, Hofzucht — refer to courts, to a specific powerful and ...
... term curve of the civilizing process can be discerned among Western European people. Theologians, philosophers and ... terms with the sheer pleasure warriors then derived from cruelty, from the torment and destruction of other human ...
... term process of moulding, curbing and tamingl2 They too came to find expression in more 'refined' and indirect forms ... terms of uneven social controls and poorly developed self-controls (see, for instance, the concept of 'control ...
... term 'state' is used in this sense, unless the context makes clear that I am referring to the states of the Union. The normal meaning of the word 'state' in America denotes an entity that under other systems of government might be ...
... term. State-formation was a violent competitive process through which there emerged successively larger territorial units with more effective monopoly apparatuses. Initially, around the year 1000, there were relatively small disparities ...