Norbert Elias ; translated by Edmund Jephcott with some notes and corrections by the author and edited by Eric Dunning, Johan Goudsblom, and Stephen Mennell.
Revised edition.
xviii, 567 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. [517]-553) and index.
This work traces the "civilizing" of manners 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. Originally published as two volumes: "The History of Manners" and "State Formation and Civilization"