The Civilizing Process

by Norbert Elias · 1939

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The Civilizing Processstands 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 within them changed Western society forever.

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long · 592 pages

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