Civilizing Process

Elias, Norbert

ISBN 10: 0631192220 / ISBN 13: 9780631192220

Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 1994

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1994 first edition paperback in near fine condition. A few light pencil marks to occasional pages. No other marks to book or cover. Clean and bright, tight, even binding. Minimal shelf wear to the card cover. A lovely copy. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day. Please note our excellent customer feedback.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Civilizing Process
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631192220
• ISBN 13: 9780631192220
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

The Civilizing Process 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.

About the Author

Norbert Elias taught and researched at the Universities of Leicester, Ghana, Frankfurt and Bielefeld. At the time of his death in 1990, he was considered to be one of the outstanding social thinkers of our century. His other Blackwell books include Time: An Essay, The Society of Individuals, Involvement and Detachment, The Loneliness of the Dying, Court Society and, with Eric Dunning, Quest for Excitement.