Civil Society in British History
Ideas, Identities, Institutions
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 November 2003
- ISBN 9780199260201
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages332 pages
- Size 240x160x20 mm
- Weight 641 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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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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. These include 'state interference', voluntary associations, economic decision-making, social and economic planning, the 'bourgeois public sphere', civil society in wartime, the 'inclusion' and 'exclusion' of women, and relations between the state, the voluntary sector, and individual citizens. The contributors suggest that the sharp distinction between civil society and the state, common in much continental thought, was of only limited application in a British context. They show how past understandings of the term were often very different from (even in some respects the exact opposite of) those held today, arguing that it makes more sense to understand civil society as a phenomenon that varies between differenc cultures and periods, rather than a universally applicable set of principles and procedures.
Two cheers, then, for an interesting collection of studies that demonstrates the range and fascination involved in the study of civil society.
Table of Contents:
Introduction : Civil Society in British History: Paradigm or Peculiarity?
From Richard Hooker to Harold Laski: Changing Perceptions of Civil Society in British Political Thought
Central Government 'Interference': Changing Conceptions, Powers and Concerns, c.1700-1850
'Opinions Deliver'd in Conversation': Conversation, Politics, and Gender in the Late Eighteenth Century
Civil Society by Accident? Paradoxes of Voluntarism and Pluralism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Germany: L. J. M. Ludlow, Lujo Brentano, and the Labour Question
Altercation over Civil Society: The Bitter Cry of the Edwardian Middle Classes
Public or Private Ownership? The Dilemma of Urban Utilities in London and New York 1870-1914
British Progressives and Civil Society in India 1905-1914
Military Service Tribunals: Civil Society in Action 1916-1918
The Countryside, Planning, and Civil Society 1926-1947
Women and Civil Society: Feminist Responses to the Irish Constitution of 1937
Civil Society and the Clerisy: Christian Elites and National Culture c.1930-1950
'Simple Solutions to Complex Problems': The Greater London Council and the Greater London Development Plan 1965-1973
Civil Society and the Good Citizen: Competing Conceptions of Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Britain
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