Download or read book Civilizing Process written by Norbert Elias and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1994-05-17 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civilizing Processd stands as Norbert Elias's greatest work, tracing the "civilizing" of manners and personality in Western Europe since the late Middle Ages, and showing how this was related to the formation of states and the monopolization of power within them.