Civilizing Process
- ISBN-10
- 0631192212
- ISBN-13
- 9780631192213
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 576
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994-05-17
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Author
- Norbert Elias
Description
The Civilizing Processd stands as Norbert Elias's greatest work, tracing the "civilizing" of manners and personality in Western Europe since the late Middle Ages, and showing how this was related to the formation of states and the monopolization of power within them.
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