The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations

**This is a copy of other 'The Civilizing Process.pdf', except that the postscript had been replaced with text (the scan/OCR was bad)** The Civilizing Process stands out as Norbert Elias' greatest work, tracing the "civilizing" of manners and personality in Western Europe since the late Middle Ages by demonstrating how the formation of states and the monopolization of power within them changed Western society forever.