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    All Manners of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the Present

    Stephen Mennell

    So close geographically, how could France and England be so enormously far apart gastronomically? Not just in different recipes and ways of cooking, but in their underlying attitudes toward the…

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    Classical Readings on Culture and Civilization

    This is a wide ranging and comprehensive survey of cultural and sociological thought, bringing together key published essays from some of the most renowned thinkers from the mid-eighteenth century to…

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    The American Civilizing Process

    Stephen Mennell

    Since 9/11, the American government has presumed to speak and act in the name of ‘civilization’. But isthat how the rest of the world sees it? And if not, why…

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    The American Civilizing Process

    Stephen Mennell

    Since 9/11, the American government has presumed to speak and act in the name of ‘civilization’.

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    Norbert Elias: An Introduction

    Stephen Mennell

    Gives an introduction to Norbert Elias’ work that is not part of the Collected Works of Norbert Elias .

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    Classical Readings on Culture and Civilization

    A survey of cultural and sociological thought, bringing together key published essays from some of the most renowned thinkers from the mid-18th to the mid-20th century.

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    The Anthem Companion to Norbert Elias

    The book brings together authoritative chapters by leading experts in the sociology of Elias. It charts Elias's ambition to create an integrative sociological framework across a wide range of studies…

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    The Norbert Elias Reader

    Illustrating both the continutiy and development of the thought of Norbert Elias, this book brings together key excerpts from all aspects of his work, and should make it much easier…

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    The Course of Human History:: Civilization and Social Process

    Johan Goudsblom,David M Jones,Stephen Mennell,Stephen Mennell (University College, Dublin)

    This text explores four major features of human society in their ecological and historical context: the origins of priests and organised religion; the rise of military men in an agrarian…

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    The Course of Human History:: Civilization and Social Process

    Johan Goudsblom,David M Jones,Stephen Mennell,Stephen Mennell (University College, Dublin)

    This text explores four major features of human society in their ecological and historical context: the origins of priests and organised religion; the rise of military men in an agrarian…

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    The Court Society

    Norbert Elias

    A study of the life of the nobility at the royal court of France, especially under Louis XIV.

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    The Genesis of the Naval Profession

    Norbert Elias

    The emergence of the naval officer was related to the necessities of naval warfare and the structure of society on land. Originally warships were manned by two separate sets of…

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    Essays I: On the Sociology of Knowledge and the Sciences

    Norbert Elias

    Between the end of the Second World War and his death in 1990, Elias published almost 60 articles on a wide range of topics. This volume develops his sociological theory…

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    Essays II: On Civilising Processes, State Formation and National Identity

    Norbert Elias

    Presents themes that represent major extensions of and reflections upon the ideas first advanced in The Civilizing Process . This title includes topics such as: violence and civilisation; the civilising…

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    Essays III: On Sociology and the Humanities

    Norbert Elias

    Contains 28 essays some of which directly express Elias’ dissatisfaction with the ahistorical, present-centred trend of modern sociology. This book shows how wide ranging were Elias’ own sociological interests. It…

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    Studies on the Germans

    Norbert Elias

    First published in German in 1989, exactly 50 years after the author’s most famous work, On the Process of Civilisation, this edition features his original English text of the essay…

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    Supplements and Index to the Collected Works

    Norbert Elias

    Including the consolidated index to the Collected Works as a whole, this title contains two substantial supplements: a long and important critique on Freud written in the last weeks of…

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    On Civilization, Power and Knowledge

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    Norbert Elias has been described as among the great sociologists of the 20th century. A collection of his most important writings, this book sets out Elias’ thinking during the course…

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    On Democracy, Revolution and Society

    Alexis de Tocqueville

    Alexis de Tocqueville possessed one of the most fertile sociological imaginations of the nineteenth century. For more than 120 years, his uncanny predictive insight has continued to fascinate thinkers, and…

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    Mozart and Other Essays on Courtly Art

    Norbert Elias

    Like his father Leopold, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was dependent on a court aristocracy in whose eyes he was little more than a domestic servant. This title presents an account of…

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    Norbert Elias

    Norbert Elias (1897-1990) is now widely regarded as one of the greatest sociologists of the 20th century. These four volumes provide a comprehensive and penetrating survey of Elias’s life and…

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    An Essay on Time

    Norbert Elias

    Aims to turn an ancient philosophical question - what is time? - into a researchable theoretical-empirical problem. What we call ‘time’ is neither an innate property of the human mind…

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    What is Sociology?

    Norbert Elias

    A translation that contains Norbert Elias’ broadest statement of the fundamentals of sociology, in important respects very different from the discipline as it is institutionalised today. In his vision, sociology…

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    On the Process of Civilisation

    Norbert Elias

    Beginning with the author’s celebrated study of the changing standards of behaviour of the secular upper classes in Western Europe since the Middle Ages, this title demonstrates how psychological changes…

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    Interviews and Autobiographical Reflections

    Norbert Elias

    In the last decade of his life, Elias gave many interviews in which he discussed aspects of his work, rebutting many common misunderstandings of his thinking and further developing ideas…

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