This is the first account of how meeting rules and behaviour have deloped. It takes an historical approach, from medieval meetings to meetings of the future, and provides a volume of comparative research on the development of meeting behaviour; that is, human behaviour during councils, assemblies, parliaments, business conferences, and other meetings (both formal and informal), held to discuss and arrange a common future.
Read the foreword by prof Stephen Mennell


Contents:
Part I: Introduction
1 Meeting Behaviour and Civilization
2 The Development of the Concept of Meeting

Part II: Meetings in Military-Agrarian Societies
3 The Militarization and Demilitarization of Meetings
4 The Courtization of Meetings

PART III: Meetings During the Transition from an Agrarian to an Industrial Society
5 The Emergence of a Protestant Meeting Order
6 The Formation of the First Meeting Class in Europe

PART IV: Meetings in Industrializing and Industrialized Societies
7 Development and Spread of Parliamentary Manners
8 The Professionalization of Meeting Manners

Epilogue: Changing Meeting Behaviour as an Aspect of Civilizing Processes

Dit boek wordt uitgegeven door Continuum te London en New York. Het is onder meer te bestellen bij Amazon.com. Nu ook als paperback voor slechts £ 16,99.