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  • The American Civilizing Process

    by 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 not?Stephen Mennell leads up to such contemporary questions through a careful study of the whole span of American development, from the first settlers to the American Empire. He takes a novel approach, analysing the USA’s experience in the ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • Norbert Elias’s African Processes of Civilisation

    On the Formation of Survival Units in Ghana

    by Barbara Mennell, Stephen Mennell ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In 1962 Norbert Elias was invited as a temporary professor at the University of Ghana in Legon, Accra. He taught, employed fieldwork, travelled, and met many people in postcolonial Africa. When Elias left Ghana in 1964, he had laid the basic groundwork for a fundamental sociological argument on human societies.The volume on hand is a selection of his unpublished writings based on these experiences ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Course of Human History:

    Civilization and Social Process

    by Johan Goudsblom, David M Jones, Stephen Mennell ...
    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 society; economic expansion and growth; and civilising and decivilising trends over time. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Anthem Companion to Norbert Elias

    Edited by Stephen Mennell, Alex Law ...
    Series series Anthem Companions to Sociology
    The book presents an authoritative assessment of Norbert Elias (1897–1990). It recognizes Elias as one of the major contributors to the development of sociological tradition in the past century and charts the continuing relevance of his conception of sociology for contemporary society. Only toward the end of his career as an academic did Elias’s work begin to attract the attention of English ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Civilisations, Civilising Processes and Modernity – A Debate

    Documents from the Conference at Bielefeld, 1984

    Edited by Artur Bogner, Stephen Mennell ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In 1984, the celebrated sociologist and historian Norbert Elias convened a major conference on ‘Civilisations and civilising processes’ at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (University of Bielefeld). Participants included the most distinguished and influential scholars in historical sociology and world history. This book will make available, for the first time in one place, the papers ... Read more

    $134.09 USD