Civil society in British history : ideas, identities, institutions 
edited by Jose Harris 
 - Oxford  Oxford University Press  2005 
 - x, 319 p. ; 22 cm. 
<br/><br/> Contents; 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. 5. 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 C 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199279104 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Civil society<br/>Civilization<br/>Great Britain<br/>Political science--Citizen participation<br/>Social action<br/>Social history
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>301.0941 HAR