The American civilizing process

2007

xii, 388 p.

9780745632087

Prologue: Civilizing processes -- "American civilization" -- "Fellow Americans" and outsiders -- American manners under scrutiny -- American aristocracies -- The market society -- Violence and aggressiveness -- And wilderness is paradise enow : from settlements to independence -- But westward, look, the land is bright : from frontier to empire -- Integration struggles -- The curse of the American dream -- Involvement, detachment and American religiosity -- America and humanity as a whole.

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