The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners - Hardcover

Norbert Elias

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0916354326 ISBN 13: 9780916354329

Publisher: Urizen Books, 1978

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 this title

Book Description:

This highly anticipated revised edition traces the civilizing manners & personality in Western Europe since the middle ages, & shows how this was related to the formation of states & the monopolization of power within them.

From the Back Cover:

The Civilizing Process stands out as Norbert Elias' greatest work, tracing the 'civilizing' of manners and personality in Western Europe since the Middle Ages, and showing how this was related to the formation of states and the monopolization of power within them. It comprises the two volumes originally published in English as The History of Manners and State Formation and Civilization, now, in a single volume, the book is restored to its original format and made available world-wide to a new generation of readers.

In this new edition, the original text is extensively revised, corrected, and updated. The Revised Edition reveals anew and afresh the greatness of Elias' masterpiece.

About this edition

• Publisher: Urizen Books
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0916354326
• ISBN 13: 9780916354329
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 310