Elias on Germany, Nazism and the Holocaust: On the balance between 'civilizing' and 'decivilizing' trends in the social development of Western Europe

British Journal of Sociology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1998, Pages

  Dunning, Eric ^a   Mennell, Stephen ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Civilization; Civilizing process; Culture; Decivilizing; Holocaust; Nazism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346873911     PISSN: 00071315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/591387     Document Type: Article

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