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 in habitus and emotion management were linked to wider transformations in power relations.
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Originally published as 'Uber den Prozess der Zivilisation by Hans zum Falken, Basle, 1939 in 2 vols. Rev. German ed. published by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt/Main as vol. 3/I+II of the Norbert Elias Gesammelte Schriften, 1997. One vol. English translation published as The civilising process by Blackwell, Oxford. 1994.
