Debunking myths along the way, All Manners of Food is a sweeping look at how social and political development has helped to shape different culinary cultures.

But isthat how the rest of the world sees it? And if not, why not? Stephen Mennell leads up to such contemporary questions through a careful study of the whole span of American development, from the first settlers to the American Empire.

This text explores four major features of human society in their ecological and historical context: the origins of priests and organised religion; the rise of military men in an agrarian society; economic expansion and growth; and ...

Stephen Mennell provides an intellectual portrait of the sociologist Norbert Elias, whose work is of increasingly wide interest to student of the humanities and social sciences.

This text explores four major features of human society in their ecological and historical context: the origins of priests and organised religion; the rise of military men in an agrarian society; economic expansion and growth; and ...

Provides understanding of the role of food in the contemporary world.

Studie over de Duitse socioloog (1897-1990) en diens civilisatietheorie.

When Elias left Ghana in 1964, he had laid the basic groundwork for a fundamental sociological argument on human societies. The volume on hand is a selection of his unpublished writings based on these experiences.