Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction: A Process-Sociological Approach to Understanding Civilization
- 1 The Return of Discourses of Civilization and Barbarism
- 2 Elias’s Explanation of the European Civilizing Process
- 3 The Nation-State, War and Human Equality
- 4 The Classical European ‘Standard of Civilization’
- 5 Civilization, Diplomacy and the Enlargement of International Society
- 6 Standards of Civilization in the Post-European Global Order
- 7 Civilizing Processes at the Level of Humanity as a Whole
- Summary and Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction: A Process-Sociological Approach to Understanding Civilization
- 1 The Return of Discourses of Civilization and Barbarism
- 2 Elias’s Explanation of the European Civilizing Process
- 3 The Nation-State, War and Human Equality
- 4 The Classical European ‘Standard of Civilization’
- 5 Civilization, Diplomacy and the Enlargement of International Society
- 6 Standards of Civilization in the Post-European Global Order
- 7 Civilizing Processes at the Level of Humanity as a Whole
- Summary and Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Index
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- Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2020