The Civilizing Process, Revised ed.

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by Norbert Elias,

Translated by Edmund Jephcott

Blackwell Publishers

Due/Published April 2000, 576 pages, paper

ISBN 0631221611

A new edition of Elias's major work in which the original text has been extensively revised, corrected, and updated. It traces the "civilizing" of manners and personality in Western Europe since the Middle Ages and shows 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.