Civil society and empire : Ireland and Scotland in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world /
Livesey traces the origins of the modern conceptions of civil society to Ireland & Scotland during the 18th century, arguing that it was invented as an idea of renewed community for provincial & defeated élites to allow them to enjoy liberty without participating in governance.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2009.
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Colección: | Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Coffee, association, and cultural hybridity in seventeenth-century England improvement and the discourse of society in eighteenth-century Ireland
- The authority of the defeated: catholic languages of the moral order in the eighteenth century
- The experience of empire: the black family, britons, and the emergence of society
- A habitat for hopeful monsters: David Hume and the Scottish theorists of ivil
- Society
- Society and empire in revolution: Ireland and Britain in the 1790s.