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 within them ch
This is Volume 1 of Elias's work The Civilizing Process. The History of Manners examines the links between the social graces and social control, concentrating on changes in social norms and individual perceptions and behavior.
Ranging in date from Elias's teenage years before the First World War to the 1930s, the writings in this volume were previously unpublished in English.
