The Civilizing Process: The history of manners
- ISBN-10
- 0631189300
- ISBN-13
- 9780631189305
- Series
- The Civilizing Process
- Pages
- 380
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1978
- Publisher
- Urizen Books
- Author
- Norbert Elias
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