Civil Society in British History Ideas, Identities, Institutions [Paperback]

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.

Introduction : Civil Society in British History: Paradigm or Peculiarity?
1. From Richard Hooker to Harold Laski: Changing Perceptions of Civil Society in British Political Thought,Jose Harris
2. Central Government 'Interference': Changing Conceptions, Powers and Concerns, c.1700-1850,Joanna Innes
3. 'Opinions Deliver'd in Conversation': Conversation, Politics, and Gender in the Late Eighteenth Century,Kathryn Gleadle
4. Civil Society by Accident? Paradoxes of Voluntarism and Pluralism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,Brian Harrison
5. Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Germany: L. J. M. Ludlow, Lujo Brentano, and the Labour Question,Lawrence Goldman
6. Altercation over Civil Society: The Bitter Cry of the Edwardian Middle Classes,Philip Waller
7. Public or Private Ownership? The Dilemma of Urban Utilities in London and New York 1870-1914,Raphael Schapiro
8. British Progressives and Civil Society in India 1905-1914,Nicholas Owen
9. Military Service Tribunals: Civil Society in Action 1916-1918,Adrian Gregory
10. The Countryside, Planning, and Civil Society 1926-1947,John Stevenson
11. Women and Civil Society: Feminist Responses to the Irish Constitution of 1937,Senia Paseta
12. Civil Society and the Clerisy: Christian Elites and National Culture c.1930-1950,Matthew Grimley
13. 'Simple Solutions to Complex Problems': The Greater London Council and the Greater London Development Plan 1965-1973,John Davl£$