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Civil society in British history : ideas, identities, institutions /
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 te...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction: Civil Society in British History: Paradigm or Peculiarity?; 1. From Richard Hooker to Harold Laski: Changing Perceptions of Civil Society in British Political Thought, Late Sixteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries; 2. Central Government 'Interference': Changing Conceptions, Practices, and Concerns, c.1700-1850; 3. 'Opinions deliver'd in conversation': Conversation, Politics, and Gender in the Late Eighteenth Century; 4. Civil Society by Accident? Paradoxes of Voluntarism and Pluralism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
- 5. Civil Society in Nineteenth-century Britain and Germany: J.M. Ludlow, Lujo Brentano, and the Labour Question6. Altercation Over Civil Society. The Bitter Cry of the Edwardian Middle Classes; 7. Public or Private Ownership? The Dilemma of Urban Utilities in London and New York, 1870-1914; 8. British Progressives and Civil Society in India, 1905-1914; 9. Military Service Tribunals: Civil Society in Action, 1916-1918; 10. The C.