STEFAN-LUDWIG HOFFMANN is Assistant Professor in Modern History at the University of Bochum, Germany.

'...Hoffmann has provided teachers and students alike with an intelligent and lucid introduction to key chapters in the history of civil society.' - Robert Nemes, Austrian History Yearbook 39

• Editors' PrefaceAcknowledgementsMapsIntroduction: Democracy and Civil SocietySociable Societies: Enlightened Sociability from Boston to St. PetersburgIntimacy and Exclusion: Bourgeois Passions in the Early Nineteenth CenturyNations of Joiners: Practicing Democracy in the Age of NationalismMass Culture, Mass Politics: Fin-de-siecle CrisesConclusion: Paradoxes of Civil SocietyBibliographyIndex.

STEFAN-LUDWIG HOFFMANN is Assistant Professor in Modern History at the University of Bochum, Germany.

'...Hoffmann has provided teachers and students alike with an intelligent and lucid introduction to key chapters in the history of civil society.' - Robert Nemes, Austrian History Yearbook 39

• Editors' PrefaceAcknowledgementsMapsIntroduction: Democracy and Civil SocietySociable Societies: Enlightened Sociability from Boston to St. PetersburgIntimacy and Exclusion: Bourgeois Passions in the Early Nineteenth CenturyNations of Joiners: Practicing Democracy in the Age of NationalismMass Culture, Mass Politics: Fin-de-siecle CrisesConclusion: Paradoxes of Civil SocietyBibliographyIndex.

STEFAN-LUDWIG HOFFMANN is Assistant Professor in Modern History at the University of Bochum, Germany.

'...Hoffmann has provided teachers and students alike with an intelligent and lucid introduction to key chapters in the history of civil society.' - Robert Nemes, Austrian History Yearbook 39

• Editors' PrefaceAcknowledgementsMapsIntroduction: Democracy and Civil SocietySociable Societies: Enlightened Sociability from Boston to St. PetersburgIntimacy and Exclusion: Bourgeois Passions in the Early Nineteenth CenturyNations of Joiners: Practicing Democracy in the Age of NationalismMass Culture, Mass Politics: Fin-de-siecle CrisesConclusion: Paradoxes of Civil SocietyBibliographyIndex.