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How is it possible to write about "American" habitus in general, when the United States is socially, geographically, ethically and politically so diverse? "The USA", it has been observed, "is not a country, it is a continent". The social forces and social processes shaping the habitus of Americans are multifarious. There has not, for example, ever been a single elite in the USA as a whole that has succeeded in monopolising the social "model-setting" function to the extent that was common in the history of many Western European countries. For the development of American habitus, Stephen Mennell advances a central proposition: His thesis is that the central historic experience shaping the social habitus of Americans is that of their country constantly becoming more powerful relative to its neighbours. This has had long-term and all-pervasive effects on the way Americans see themselves, on how they perceive the rest of the world, and how others see them.
Völlig zu Recht ist diese bei Jean-Bernard Marquette an der Universität Bordeaux 3 gearbeitete Dissertation mit dem "Prix de la fondation Charles-Higounet" der Académie nationale des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Bordeaux ausgezeichnet worden, steht sie doch würdig in der guten regionalgeschichtlichen Tradition dieses großen Gelehrten, dessen Arbeiten und Methoden sich immer wieder mit der deutschen landesgeschichtlichen Forschung auseinandergesetzt haben. ...