Civil Society in British History

Download or read book Civil Society in British History written by Jose Harris and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005-07-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.