This book explores the many different strands in the language of civil society from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Through a series of case-studies it investigates the applicability of the term to a wide range of historical settings. The contributors show how past understandings of the term were often very different from (even in some respects the exact opposite of) those held today.
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Two cheers, then, for an interesting collection of studies that demonstrates the range and fascination involved in the study of civil society. Michael Bentley, The English Historical Review ...required reading...The question of how the individual engages with the state...remains a fertile one, enriched here by a mix of periods, cultures, and approaches. This pluralism is an enlightened, active example of 'civil society', and we are indebted to the voluntary association of the contributors. English Historical Review
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Jose Harris is a Professor of Modern History, St Catherine's College, Oxford.
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Current discussion of 'civil society' in Britain and elsewhere draws extensively though often unconsciously upon two distinct intellectual lineages that are in certain respects deeply antithetical. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
military service tribunals, municipal trading, urban utilities, temporary exemption, civil society Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal Commission, Bitter Cry, Middleton Murry, Indigenous Australians, New York, Katherine Plymley, Second World War, The Tribune, New South Wales, London County Council, Nevinson Diary, Adam Smith, Irish Independent, Irish Press, London Traffic, Greater London Development Plan, Lujo Brentano, Roman Catholic, Thomas Clarkson, Catherine Buck, First World War, Great Britain, Great War, Joseph Plymley, Oldham Papers New!
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Current discussion of 'civil society' in Britain and elsewhere draws extensively though often unconsciously upon two distinct intellectual lineages that are in certain respects deeply antithetical. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
military service tribunals, municipal trading, urban utilities, temporary exemption, civil society Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal Commission, Bitter Cry, Middleton Murry, Indigenous Australians, New York, Katherine Plymley, Second World War, The Tribune, New South Wales, London County Council, Nevinson Diary, Adam Smith, Irish Independent, Irish Press, London Traffic, Greater London Development Plan, Lujo Brentano, Roman Catholic, Thomas Clarkson, Catherine Buck, First World War, Great Britain, Great War, Joseph Plymley, Oldham Papers New!
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- Guilds and Civil Society in European Political Thought from the Twelfth Century to the Present by Antony Black on 4 pages
- Society and Democracy in Germany by Ralf Dahrendorf in Front Matter, page 98, and page 310
- Principles of Political Economy (Great Minds Series) by John Stuart Mill on page 53, page 59, and page 90
- Political Theories of the Middle Age by Otto Gierke on page 14, page 31, and page 310
- Civil Society: The Critical History of an Idea by John Ehrenberg in Front Matter, page 238, and page 310
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- Christianity and Social Service in Modern Britain: The Disinherited Spirit by Frank Prochaska in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World by Mark Bevir on page 129
- Crime and Law in England, 1750-1840: Remaking Justice from the Margins (Past and Present Publications) by Peter King on page 52
- Governments, Labour, and the Law in Mid-Victorian Britain: The Trade Union Legislation of the 1870s (Oxford Historical Monographs) by Mark Curthoys in Back Matter
- Manufacturing Citizenship: Education and Nationalism in Europe, South Asia and China (Routledge Research in Education) by Veronique Benei in Front Matter
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