"The Court Society invites us not only to consider the extraordinary intellectual project of [Norbert's] long career as a magnificent work-in-progress, but also to encounter his distinctive way of approaching history in light of contemporary concerns, that is, to discover with him the presence of the past." Canadian Journal of Sociology Online March-April 2007 "Elias argues that the centralization of power in the hands of the king resulted in a symbiotic relationship between the king and the court nobility. The complex court etiquette and ceremony recognized the centrality of the king while protecting the elevated status of the nobility within the figuration against those who might challenge it ... the editors have added annotations to the extant translations ... Recommended." CHOICE, May 2007 "The enterprise of publishing the collected works of Norbert Elias under the editorship of Richard Kilminster and Stephen Mennell by University College Dublin Press is an extremely important contribution to the contemporary intellectual and academic scene. Norbert Elias was one of the most original minds in the human and social sciences in the 20th century - his work covers not only a very broad range of sociological topics starting with his classical The Civilising Process and later The Court Society, but also many topics ranging from sociology of knowledge to sociology of sport and analysis of historical processes; the broad philosophical problems, such as the idea of the place of the progress of symbolic dimensions in social life. This is really a monumental enterprise, very worthwhile and very constructive, presenting a great challenge to the contemporary intellectual and academic scene - and UCD Press should be congratulated in undertaking this enterprise." S. N. Eisenstadt Jerusalem, 24 July 2008 "Too easily the editors and readers of Books Ireland take it as given that Irish publishers' books are mostly about Ireland or by Irish writers. We wish it were not so because we think our publishers are of world class, and a shining exception and exemplar is this series of eighteen volumes of the life's work in English - some of his work was written in German - of Elias (1897-1990) whose major theme was the theory of civilising processes - Norbert is very interesting on the subject as well as on the dynamics of sports, social (and especially male) bonding, violence and football hooliganism. These books are in the very best tradition of design, with acid-free paper, sewn bindings, cloth boards, coloured endpapers, spine labels and acetate jackets."

《历史学与社会理论(第2版)》是英国著名史学家彼得。伯克的经典之作。《历史学与社会理论(第2版)》从各种角度追溯了历史学和社会科学许多领域的兴起过程以及它们之间的相互作用，特别是在近十年中的相互交融，重新梳理了历史学与社会理论之间的关系，对一些重大问题的分析具有深远的启迪作用，扩大了社会理论的概念。作者论述了当代史学领域与社会学理论的研究新成果、新方法、新术语与新概念（包括社会学家研究使用的术语与概念），评述了史学界及其他社会科学领域大师们的富有开创性的观点与理论，对中外史学界与社会学界均有重要影响。

埃利亚斯是德国著名社会学家，《文明的进程》是埃利亚斯的成名之作，出版后轰动西方世界，成为畅销书。我们习惯把文明看成一种摆在我们面前的现成财富，但在埃利亚斯看来，“文明的表现”绝非天然如此，文明是一种过程，是历经数百年逐步演变的结果，是心理逐步积淀规范的结果。传统社会学把人和社会看成是两个各自独立的实体，而作者推翻了这种两分法，提出两者不可分割，正是宏观的社会和微观的人之间的互动激荡形成了个人、国家乃至社会的整个文明的进程轨迹。
本书提供了一种新的历史研究方法：不仅研究社会经济，而且考察人的情绪气质和思维方式的变迁；不仅重视重大事件，也从小处着手，探讨人的行为举止和日常生活，以小见大。 作者将历史学、政治学、心理学、经济学、种族学、人类学和社会学等熔为一炉，使这部作品成为20世纪不可多得的一本百科全书式的人文经典读本。

这部著作试图对欧洲绝对主义国家的性质与发展作一比较考察，书中介绍了东、西欧的绝对主义国家：西班牙、法国、普鲁士、波兰等。