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%T Power, Individualism, and Collective Self Perception in the USA %A Mennell, Stephen %J Historical Social Research %N 1 %P 309-329 %V 45 %D 2020 %K we-feelings; established-outsider relations %@ 0172-6404 %~ GESIS %X The thesis of this paper is that the key element in the shaping of the habitus of Americans has been their very long-term, virtually unbroken, experience of their country becoming more and more powerful vis-à-vis its neighbours. An increasing sense of their own powerfulness is related to the "individualism" that has so often been discussed as a key characteristic of the American "national character." The long-term process of habitus formation has had important consequences for the role of the USA in world affairs since the Second World War, and may continue to do so in a future marked for the first time by a long-term decline in American power. %C DEU %G en %9 journal article %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info