The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners by Johan Goudsblom, Norbert Elias, Edmund F.N. Jephcott, Eric Dunning, Stephen Mennell

The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners

Johan Goudsblom, Norbert Elias, Edmund F.N. Jephcott, Eric Dunning, Stephen Mennell

310 pages 1939

2 editions

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The Civilizing Process stands out as Norbert Elias\' greatest work, tracing the "civilizing" of manners and personality in Western Europe since the late Middle Ages by demonstrating how the formation of states and the monopolization of power withi...

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