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Abstract
"Civil Society" has been experiencing a global renaissance among social movements and political thinkers during the last two decades. This collection of original papers by junior and senior scholars offers an important comparative-historical dimension to the debate by examining the historical roots of civil society in Germany and Britain from the seventeenth-century revolutions to the beginning of the welfare state.
Frank Trentmann is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Birkbeck College, University of London.
"[This book] does an admirable job of making our understanding of civil society both more elaborated and more complex. Bringing together theoretical and historical perspectives, and insisting on the significance of the comparative, these essays provide an important resource for researchers, teachers and students." · Catherine Hall,
"It is fitting to recognize ways in which civil society may produce conformity and inequality; it is also fitting to recognize how it allows for challenges to insularity and discrimination. This volume succeeds admirably in fostering an appropriately nuanced and balanced view." · Albion
"The resurgence of interest in the concept of civil society among political scientists and social theorists has permeated the language of historians during the past decade – bringing with it the familiar dangers of inflation, confusing eclecticism, and misuse. This volume ... grounds the discussion in an impressive series of carefully delimited essays, contextualizing the category in rich and illuminating ways. Frank Trentmann's team eloquently brings theory and history together." · Geoff Eley,
Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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Title Page | iii | ||
Copyright Page | iv | ||
Table of Contents | v | ||
Preface to the Revised Second Edition | vii | ||
Acknowledgments | x | ||
Preface to the First Edition | xi | ||
Part I. Introductory Perspectives | 1 | ||
Introduction | 3 | ||
Chapter 1. Reflections on the Making of Civility in Society | 47 | ||
Part II. Conceptual Origins | 59 | ||
Chapter 2. \"The Commerce of the Sexes | 61 | ||
Chapter 3. Kant, Smith, and Hegel | 85 | ||
Chapter 4. Immanuel Kant's Two Theories of Civil Society | 105 | ||
Part III. Associational Life and the Education of Citizens | 133 | ||
Chapter 5. The Intelligence Gazette (Intelligenzblatt) as a Road Map to Civil Society | 135 | ||
Chapter 6. Club Culture and Social Authority | 157 | ||
Chapter 7. Energy, Willpower, and Harmony | 176 | ||
Part IV. The Limits of Inclusion | 197 | ||
Chapter 8. Civic Culture, Women's Foreign Missions, and the British Imperial Imagination, 1860 - 1914 | 199 | ||
Chapter 9. The Village Goes Public | 223 | ||
Chapter 10. Religion and Civil Society | 244 | ||
Chapter 11. Prostitutes, Civil Society, and the State in Weimar Germany | 263 | ||
Part V. Political Culture and Social Citizenship | 281 | ||
Chapter 12. Oligarchs, Liberals, and Mittelstand | 283 | ||
Chapter 13. Civil Society, Commerce, and the \"Citizen-Consumer | 306 | ||
Chapter 14. Socialism, Civil Society, and the State in Modern Britain | 332 | ||
Chapter 15. Civil Society in the Aftermath of the Great War | 352 | ||
Contributors | 369 | ||
Select Bibliography | 371 | ||
Index | 377 |