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  • The Anthem Companion to Norbert Elias

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $58.49 USD

  • Norbert Elias’s African Processes of Civilisation

    On the Formation of Survival Units in Ghana

    de 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basic groundwork for a fundamental sociological argument on human societies.The volume on hand is a selection of his unpublished writings based on these experiences ... Leer más

    $71.99 USD

  • Civilisations, Civilising Processes and Modernity – A Debate

    Documents from the Conference at Bielefeld, 1984

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $134.99 USD

  • The Course of Human History:

    Civilization and Social Process

    de 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. ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Le processus de civilisation américain

    de Stephen Mennell ...
    Traducido por Claire Le Strat ...
    Series series Interdépendances
    Comment expliquer les paradoxes – vus d'Europe, du moins – d'un pays où coexistent une civilité cordiale et l'application de la peine de mort, l'excellence scientifique et la pratique religieuse instituée (In God We Trust), un pays où l'usage de la cigarette est plus souvent interdit que la détention d'armes à feu et où des inégalités croissantes contredisent une égalité pourtant revendiquée comme ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • The American Civilizing Process

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $25.00 USD

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  • Violence and Civilization

    An Introduction to the Work of Norbert Elias

    de Jonathan Fletcher ...
    This book provides an introduction to the work of Norbert Elias. It is the first systematic appraisal of two central themes of his thought - violence and civilization. Although Elias is best known for his theory of civilizing processes, this study highlights the crucial importance of the concept of decivilizing processes. Fletcher argues that while Elias did not develop a theory of decivilizing ... Leer más

    $22.00 USD

  • The houses of history

    A critical reader in history and theory, second edition

    de Anna Green, Kathleen Troup ...
    The houses of history is a clear, jargon-free introduction to the major theoretical approaches employed by historians. This innovative critical reader provides accessible introductions to fourteen schools of thought, from the empiricist to the postcolonial, including chapters on Marxist history, Freud and psychohistory, the Annales, historical sociology, narrative, gender, public history and the ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • The Fatal Conceit

    The Errors of Socialism

    de F. A. Hayek ...
    A critique of socialism by the Nobel Prize–winning economist: "The energy and precision with which Mr. Hayek sweeps away his opposition is impressive." — The Wall Street JournalIn this work, F.A. Hayek—a pioneer in monetary theory and proponent of libertarian philosophy—gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues that ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Language and Identity

    An introduction

    de John Edwards ...
    Series series Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
    The language we use forms an important part of our sense of who we are - of our identity. This book outlines the relationship between our identity as members of groups - ethnic, national, religious and gender - and the language varieties important to each group. What is a language? What is a dialect? Are there such things as language 'rights'? Must every national group have its own unique language ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • What is the History of Knowledge?

    de Peter Burke ...
    Series series What is History?
    What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of knowledge (or, as some scholars say, ‘knowledges in the plural’) and how it differs from the history of science, intellectual history, the sociology of knowledge or from cultural history. Leading cultural historian, Peter Burke, draws upon examples of this ... Leer más

    $18.00 USD

  • History and Cultural Theory

    de Simon Gunn ...
    In recent times there has been recognition of the growing influence of cultural theory on historical writing. Foucault, Bourdieu, Butler and Spivak are just some of the thinkers whose ideas have been taken up and deployed by historians.What are these ideas and where do they come from? How have cultural theorists thought about 'history'? And how have historians applied theoretical insights to ... Leer más

    $87.99 USD