Civil Society and Empire: Ireland and Scotland in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World by James Gerard Livesey

Civil Society and Empire: Ireland and Scotland in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History

James Gerard Livesey

294 pages • first pub 2009 (view editions)

nonfiction history politics
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James Livesey traces the origins of the modern conception of civil society--an ideal of collective life between the family and politics--not to England or France, as many of his predecessors have done, but to the provincial societies of Ireland an...

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