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

Published by Berghahn Books 2000

Paradoxes of Civil Society

New Perspectives on Modern German and British History

Edited by: Frank Trentmann

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785330544

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About this book

"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.

Author / Editor information

Frank Trentmann is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Reviews

"[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,

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
PREFACE TO THE REVISED SECOND EDITION Frank Trentmann Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	x
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION Charles S. Maier Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
PART I INTRODUCTORY PERSPECTIVES
INTRODUCTION Paradoxes of Civil Society Frank Trentmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Reflections on the Making of Civility in Society John A. Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
PART II CONCEPTUAL ORIGINS
2 “THE COMMERCE OF THE SEXES” Gender and the Social Sphere in Scottish Enlightenment Accounts of Civil Society Mary Catherine Moran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
3 KANT, SMITH, AND HEGEL The Market and the Categorical Imperative Rupert H. Gordon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
4 IMMANUEL KANT’S TWO THEORIES OF CIVIL SOCIETY Elisabeth Ellis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
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 Ian F. McNeely Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
6 CLUB CULTURE AND SOCIAL AUTHORITY Freemasonry in Leipzig, 1741–1830 Robert Beachy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
7 ENERGY, WILLPOWER, AND HARMONY On the Problematic Relationship between State and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany Daniel A. McMillan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
PART IV THE LIMITS OF INCLUSION
8 CIVIC CULTURE, WOMEN’S FOREIGN MISSIONS, AND THE BRITISH IMPERIAL IMAGINATION, 1860–1914 Steven S Maughan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
9 THE VILLAGE GOES PUBLIC Peasants and Press in Nineteenth-Century Altbayern John Abbott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
10 RELIGION AND CIVIL SOCIETY Catholics, Jesuits, and Protestants in Imperial Germany Róisín Healy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
11 PROSTITUTES, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND THE STATE IN WEIMAR GERMANY Julia Roos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
PART V POLITICAL CULTURE AND SOCIAL CITIZENSHIP
12 OLIGARCHS, LIBERALS, AND MITTELSTAND Defining Civil Society in Hamburg, 1858–1862 Madeleine Hurd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
13 CIVIL SOCIETY, COMMERCE, AND THE “CITIZEN-CONSUMER” Popular Meanings of Free Trade in Modern Britain Frank Trentmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	306
14 SOCIALISM, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND THE STATE INMODERN BRITAIN Mark Bevir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	332
15 CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE GREAT WAR The Care of Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany Deborah Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	352
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 394
Keywords: Cultural Studies (General); History (General)

eBook

Published: January 1, 2000
ISBN: 9781785330544