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The Germans : power struggles and the development of habitus in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Title
The Germans : power struggles and the development of habitus in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Norbert Elias ; edited by Michael Schröter ; translated from the German and with a preface by Eric Dunning and Stephen Mennell.
Author
Elias, Norbert, 1897-1990.
Publication
New York : Columbia University Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors
  • Schröter, Michael.
  • Dunning, Eric.
Description
xvi, 494 pages; 24 cm
Uniform Title
Studien über die Deutschen. English
Alternative Title
Studien über die Deutschen.
Subject
  • National characteristics, German
  • Nationalism > Germany
  • Political culture > Germany
  • Germany > Politics and government > 1789-1900
  • Germany > Politics and government > 20th century
Note
  • Translation of: Studien über die Deutschen.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-481) and index.
Contents
  • Preface / Eric Dunning and Stephen Mennell -- I. Civilization and Informalization. A. Changes in European Standards of Behaviour in the Twentieth Century. B. Duelling and Membership of the Imperial Ruling Class: Demanding and Giving Satisfaction -- II. A Digression on Nationalism. 'History of Culture' and 'Political History'. From Humanist to Nationalist Middle-Class Elites. The Duality of Nation-States' Normative Codes -- III. Civilization and Violence: On the State Monopoly of Physical Violence and its Transgression -- Appendices to Part III -- Appendices to Part III: 1 On the Ethos of the Wilhelmine Bourgeoisie -- Appendices to Part III: 2 The Pro-War Literature of the Weimar Republic / Ernst Junger -- Appendices to Part III: 3 The Decay of the State Monopoly of Violence in the Weimar Republic -- Appendices to Part III: 4 Lucifer upon the Ruins of the World --
  • Appendices to Part III: 5 Terrorism in the Federal Republic of Germany - Expression of a Social Conflict between Generations -- IV. The Breakdown of Civilization -- V. Thoughts on the Federal Republic -- Editorial Postscript / Michael Schroter.
ISBN
0231105622
LCCN
95046443
OCLC
  • 33404539
  • ocm33404539
  • SCSB-14276971
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries