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Civil Society, Associations and Urban Places - Class, Nation and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Paperback)
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Civil Society, Associations and Urban Places - Class, Nation and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Paperback)
Series: Historical Urban Studies Series
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In recent years the concept of 'civil society' has become central
to the historian's understanding of class, cultural and political
power in the nineteenth-century town and city. Increasingly clubs
and voluntary societies have been regarded as an important step in
the formation of formal political parties, particularly for the
working and middle classes. The result of this is the assertion
that the more associations existing in a particular society, the
deeper democracy becomes entrenched. In order to test this
hypothesis, this volume brings together essays by an international
group of urban historians who examine the construction of civil
society from associational activity in the urban place. From their
studies, it soon becomes clear that such simple propositions do not
adequately reflect the dynamics of nineteenth-century urban society
and politics. Urban associations were ideological in purpose and
deliberately discriminatory and as such set the boundaries of civil
society. Thus competing and segmented associations were not only an
indication of pluralism and strength, but also highlighted a
fundamental weakness when faced down by the interests of the state.
Through a wide array of urban associations in a broad range of
settings, comprising Austria and Bratislava, France and Italy, the
Netherlands, Austro-Hungary, England, Scotland and the US, this
volume reflects on the construction of class, nation and culture in
the associations of the nineteenth-century urban place. In so doing
it shows that a deep and interlocking civil society does not
automatically lead to a rise in democratic activity. Expansion of
the networks of urban association could equally result in greater
subdivision and to the fragmentation and isolation of certain
groups. Partition as much as coherence is our understanding of
civil society and associations in the nineteenth-century urban
place.
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