Meetings, Manners, and Civilization: The Development of Modern Meeting Behaviour

by Wilbert van Vree

Gathering together to talk and decide about the communal future has become an increasingly important means of social integration. As a means of distinction for the elite, the stylization of meetings has replaced the stylization of drinking and eating. Discussions, decisions, negotiations and deliberations are little researched as behaviours which change along with changes in the balance of power between people. Frequently, implicitly or otherwise,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0718502663
• ISBN13: 9780718502669
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Leicester University
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.1"