In diesem Buch geht es um auffällige Veränderungen der westlichen Umgangsformen im 20. Jahrhunder...

Over the last century and a half, manners and formalities in the West have become less status-ri...

'This book shows that manners, far from being superficial adornments of behaviour, are thoroughly...

`This is a highly original and in many ways brilliant text. It is a model of how historical proce...

Theorizing Emotions reflects the recent turn to emotions in academia-not just in sociology but al...