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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-24 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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Language: en
Pages: 592
Pages: 592
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-07-13 - Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
The Civilizing Process stands out as Norbert Elias' greatest work, tracing the "civilizing" of manners and personality in Western Europe since the late Middle A
Language: en
Pages: 312
Pages: 312
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-02-17 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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' thi
Language: en
Pages: 285
Pages: 285
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-08-27 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
While the opposing paradigms of globalization and fragmentation compete in often bloody and destructive ways in the world today, this book convincingly reminds
Language: en
Pages: 375
Pages: 375
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: BRILL
Focusing on Formosan agency in the encounter with Dutch colonialism and Chinese encroachment, this book reveals a fascinating picture of Taiwan in the early mod