04012nam 2200733Ia 450 991045711040332120200520144314.01-282-35277-697866123527750-300-15590-510.12987/9780300155907(CKB)2430000000010752(StDuBDS)BDZ0022171557(SSID)ssj0000291675(PQKBManifestationID)11234671(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000291675(PQKBWorkID)10254078(PQKB)11053498(StDuBDS)EDZ0000158031(MiAaPQ)EBC3420533(DE-B1597)485681(OCoLC)586098246(DE-B1597)9780300155907(Au-PeEL)EBL3420533(CaPaEBR)ebr10348428(CaONFJC)MIL235277(OCoLC)923594258(EXLCZ)99243000000001075220090116d2009 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrCivil society and empire[electronic resource] Ireland and Scotland in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world /James LiveseNew Haven Yale University Pressc20091 online resource (1 online resource (x, 294 p.).) Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century studiesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-13902-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Coffee, Association, and Cultural Hybridity in Seventeenth-Century England -- Chapter Two. Improvement and the Discourse of Society in Eighteenth-Century Ireland -- Chapter Three. The Authority of the Defeatedy -- Chapter Four. The Experience of Empire -- Chapter Five. A Habitat for Hopeful Monsters -- Chapter Six. Civil Society and Empire in Revolution -- Conclusion -- Notes -- IndexJames Livesey traces the origins of the modern conception of civil society-an ideal of collective life between the family and politics-not to England or France, as many of his predecessors have done, but to the provincial societies of Ireland and Scotland in the eighteenth century. Livesey shows how civil society was first invented as an idea of renewed community for the provincial and defeated elites in the provinces of the British Empire and how this innovation allowed them to enjoy liberty without directly participating in the empire's governance, until the limits of the concept were revealed. The concept of civil society continues to have direct relevance for contemporary political theory and action. Livesey demonstrates how western governments, for example, have appealed to the values of civil society in their projections of power in Bosnia and Iraq. Civil society has become an object central to current ideological debate, and this book offers a thought-provoking discussion of its beginnings, objectives, and current nature.Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.Civil societyGreat BritainHistory18th centuryCivil societyIrelandHistory18th centuryCivil societyScotlandHistory18th centuryGreat BritainPolitics and government18th centuryIrelandPolitics and government1760-1820ScotlandPolitics and government18th centuryGreat BritainColoniesAmericaHistory18th centuryElectronic books.Civil societyHistoryCivil societyHistoryCivil societyHistory941.07Livesey James1045341MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457110403321Civil society and empire2471554UNINA