Looks at how social customs have changed from medieval times to the present and speculates on the social needs manners fulfill
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Seller: Second Edition Books, Butte, MT, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Good +. Tight binding, clean interior. Gray wraps have mild wear to edges, rear lower corner creased, spine lightly faded. Mild soiling to top page edges. Interior is unmarked. "Swiss sociologist Norbert Elias draws from a dazzling array of sources, including medieval etiquette and manners books, eighteenth-century novels, travel accounts, poems, paintings, and song lyrics, combining a sharp eye for social detail with breathtaking intellectual virtuosity." 314 pages including appendices, notes and index. Seller Inventory # 030979
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