Paradoxes of Civil Society : : New Perspectives on Modern German and British History / / ed. by Frank Trentmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Abbott, John,; Beachy, Robert,; Bevir, Mark,; Cohen, Deborah,; Ellis, Elisabeth,; Gordon, Rupert H.,; Hall, John A.,; Healy, Róisín,; Hurd, Madeleine,; Maier, Charles S.,; Maughan, Steven S,; McMillan, Daniel A.,; McNeely, Ian F.,; Moran, Mary Catherine,; Roos, Julia,; Trentmann, Frank,
• HerausgeberIn: Trentmann, Frank,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (394 p.)

"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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE TO THE REVISED SECOND EDITION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION -- PART I INTRODUCTORY PERSPECTIVES -- INTRODUCTION Paradoxes of Civil Society -- 1. Reflections on the Making of Civility in Society -- PART II CONCEPTUAL ORIGINS -- 2 “THE COMMERCE OF THE SEXES” Gender and the Social Sphere in Scottish Enlightenment Accounts of Civil Society -- 3 KANT, SMITH, AND HEGEL The Market and the Categorical Imperative -- 4 IMMANUEL KANT’S TWO THEORIES OF CIVIL SOCIETY -- PART III ASSOCIATIONAL LIFE AND THE EDUCATION OF CITIZENS -- 5 THE INTELLIGENCE GAZETTE (INTELLIGENZBLATT) AS A ROAD MAP TO CIVIL SOCIETY Information Networks and Local Dynamism in Germany, 1770s–1840s -- 6 CLUB CULTURE AND SOCIAL AUTHORITY Freemasonry in Leipzig, 1741–1830 -- 7 ENERGY, WILLPOWER, AND HARMONY On the Problematic Relationship between State and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany -- PART IV THE LIMITS OF INCLUSION -- 8 CIVIC CULTURE, WOMEN’S FOREIGN MISSIONS, AND THE BRITISH IMPERIAL IMAGINATION, 1860–1914 -- 9 THE VILLAGE GOES PUBLIC Peasants and Press in Nineteenth-Century Altbayern -- 10 RELIGION AND CIVIL SOCIETY Catholics, Jesuits, and Protestants in Imperial Germany -- 11 PROSTITUTES, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND THE STATE IN WEIMAR GERMANY -- PART V POLITICAL CULTURE AND SOCIAL CITIZENSHIP -- 12 OLIGARCHS, LIBERALS, AND MITTELSTAND Defining Civil Society in Hamburg, 1858–1862 -- 13 CIVIL SOCIETY, COMMERCE, AND THE “CITIZEN-CONSUMER” Popular Meanings of Free Trade in Modern Britain -- 14 SOCIALISM, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND THE STATE INMODERN BRITAIN -- 15 CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE GREAT WAR The Care of Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany -- CONTRIBUTORS -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX