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The History of Manners (The Civilizing Process, Vol. 1)
The History of Manners - The Civilizing Process, Vol. 1 Author:Norbert Elias This classic, pioneering examination of the links between the social graces and social control provides surprising and thought-provoking answers to questions such as: How have our ways of blowing our noses, eating with a knife and fork, making love, and making war changed over the last few hundred years, and what do these changes imply for the i... more »ndividual and for society? In this entertaining, fascinating, and amazingly accessible masterpiece, Swiss sociologist Norbert Elias draws from a dazzling array of sources, including medieval etiquette and manners books, eighteenth-century novels, travel accounts, poems, paintings, and song lyrics, combining a sharp eye for social detail with breathtaking intellectual virtuosity.« less