Table of Contents
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, Jose Harris2. Central Government 'Interference': Changing Conceptions, Powers and Concerns, c.1700-1850, Joanna Innes3. 'Opinions Deliver'd in Conversation': Conversation, Politics, and Gender in the Late Eighteenth Century, Kathryn Gleadle4. Civil Society by Accident? Paradoxes of Voluntarism and Pluralism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Brian Harrison5. Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Germany: L. J. M. Ludlow, Lujo Brentano, and the Labour Question, Lawrence Goldman6. Altercation over Civil Society: The Bitter Cry of the Edwardian Middle Classes, Philip Waller7. Public or Private Ownership? The Dilemma of Urban Utilities in London and New York 1870-1914, Raphael Schapiro8. British Progressives and Civil Society in India 1905-1914, Nicholas Owen9. Military Service Tribunals: Civil Society in Action 1916-1918, Adrian Gregory10. The Countryside, Planning, and Civil Society 1926-1947, John Stevenson11. Women and Civil Society: Feminist Responses to the Irish Constitution of 1937, Senia Paseta12. Civil Society and the Clerisy: Christian Elites and National Culture c.1930-1950, Matthew Grimley13. 'Simple Solutions to Complex Problems': The Greater London Council and the Greater London Development Plan 1965-1973, John Davis14. Civil Society and the Good Citizen: Competing Conceptions of Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Britain, Michael FreedenBibliographyIndex
