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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Livesey, James
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009.
Colección:Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
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  • 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.