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Stephen Mennell: The American civilizing process

Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007

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Mares, D. Stephen Mennell: The American civilizing process. Theor Soc 39, 689–695 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-010-9124-2

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