Civil Society in British History

...required reading...The question of how the individual engages with the state...remains a fertile one, enriched here by a mix of periods, cultures, and approaches. This pluralism is an enlightened, active example of 'civil society', and we are indebted to the voluntary association of the contributors. English Historical Review

• 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 ; 2. Central Government 'Interference': Changing Conceptions, Powers 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: L. J. M. Ludlow, Lujo Brentano, and the Labour Question ; 6. 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 Countryside, Planning, and Civil Society 1926-1947 ; 11. Women and Civil Society: Feminist Responses to the Irish Constitution of 1937 ; 12. Civil Society and the Clerisy: Christian Elites and National Culture c.1930-1950 ; 13. 'Simple Solutions to Complex Problems': The Greater London Council and the Greater London Development Plan 1965-1973 ; 14. Civil Society and the Good Citizen: Competing Conceptions of Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Britain ; Bibliography ; Index