Paradoxes of Civil Society : : New Perspectives on Modern German and British History /

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

"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 histori...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (394 p.)
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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

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