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

ISBN-13: 9781571811424 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 394 str.

Trentmann, Frank

Opis

"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.