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

The Civilizing Process

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

586 pages • first pub 1939 (view editions)

nonfiction history philosophy sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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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