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 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.
- ISBN10 1423788885
- ISBN13 9781423788881
- Publish Date December 2005
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Edition New ed.
- Format eBook
- Pages 332
- Language English