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 i

The end of empire in Britain itself is illuminated through explorations of its impact on key domestic institutions.

This book tells a story of radical educational change. In the early nineteenth century, an imperial civil society movement promoted modern elementary 'schools f

Livesey traces the origins of the modern conceptions of civil society to Ireland & Scotland during the 18th century, arguing that it was invented as an idea of