Norbert Elias is one of the most important and influential social thinkers of the twentieth century. Towards the end of his life he completed a major study of German society and culture in which he used his key ideas to analyse the development of the country in which he had lived for many years. The Germans is Elias?s last great work and it displays all of the breadth, brilliance and originality of his other major writings. Through a skilful interweaving of empirical evidence and theoretical reasoning, Elias explores the ways in which the particular features of German personality, social structure and behaviour, arose out of Germany?s past. Proceeding chronologically from the Enlightenment to the present day, he draws particular attention to the devastation wrought in the seventeenth century by the Thirty Years? War; Germany?s late unification compared to countries such as Britain and France which were unified much earlier and, as a result, enjoyed a much less...

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