LEADER 04315nam 22006733u 450 001 9910458179103321 005 20210106222825.0 010 $a0-19-151556-6 010 $a1-4237-8888-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000400631 035 $a(EBL)422893 035 $a(OCoLC)437109445 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000122764 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12052861 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000122764 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10131567 035 $a(PQKB)11638632 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC422893 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000400631 100 $a20130418d2005|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCivil Society in British History$b[electronic resource] $eIdeas, Identities, Institutions 210 $aOxford $cOxford University Press, UK$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (332 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-927910-1 327 $aContents; List of Contributors; 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, Late Sixteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries; 2. Central Government 'Interference': Changing Conceptions, Practices, and Concerns, c.1700-1850; 3. 'Opinions deliver'd in conversation': Conversation, Politics, and Gender in the Late Eighteenth Century; 4. Civil Society by Accident? Paradoxes of Voluntarism and Pluralism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 327 $a5. Civil Society in Nineteenth-century Britain and Germany: J. M. Ludlow, Lujo Brentano, and the Labour Question6. Altercation Over Civil Society. The Bitter Cry of the Edwardian Middle Classes; 7. Public or Private Ownership? The Dilemma of Urban Utilities in London and New York, 1870-1914; 8. British Progressives and Civil Society in India, 1905-1914; 9. Military Service Tribunals: Civil Society in Action, 1916-1918; 10. The Countryside, Planning, and Civil Society in Britain; 11. Women and Civil Society: Feminist Responses to the Irish Constitution of 1937 327 $a12. Civil Society and the Clerisy: Christian Elites and National Culture, c.1930-195013. 'Simple Solutions to Complex Problems': The Greater London Council and the Greater London Development Plan, 1965-1973; 14. Civil Society and the Good Citizen: Competing Conceptions of Citizenship in Twentieth-century Britain; 15. Britons, Settlers, and Aborigines: Civil Society and its Colonized 'Other' in Colonial, Post-colonial, and Present-day Australia; Bibliography and Further Reading; Index 330 $aThis 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. - ;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 606 $aGreat Britain -- History 606 $aGreat Britain -- Politics and government -- Citizen participation 606 $aGreat Britain -- Social conditions 606 $aSocial action -- Great Britain -- History 606 $aRegions & Countries - Europe$2HILCC 606 $aHistory & Archaeology$2HILCC 606 $aGreat Britain$2HILCC 608 $aElectronic books. 615 4$aGreat Britain -- History. 615 4$aGreat Britain -- Politics and government -- Citizen participation. 615 4$aGreat Britain -- Social conditions. 615 4$aSocial action -- Great Britain -- History. 615 7$aRegions & Countries - Europe 615 7$aHistory & Archaeology 615 7$aGreat Britain 676 $a301.0941 676 $a301/.0941 700 $aHarris$b Jose$0423492 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458179103321 996 $aCivil Society in British History$92283434 997 $aUNINA