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Civil Society and Empire - Ireland and Scotland in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Hardcover)
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Civil Society and Empire - Ireland and Scotland in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Hardcover)
Series: The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
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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 and Scotland
in the eighteenth century. Livesey shows how civil society was
first invented as an idea of renewed community for the provincial
and defeated elites in the provinces of the British Empire and how
this innovation allowed them to enjoy liberty without directly
participating in the empire's governance, until the limits of the
concept were revealed. The concept of civil society continues to
have direct relevance for contemporary political theory and action.
Livesey demonstrates how western governments, for example, have
appealed to the values of civil society in their projections of
power in Bosnia and Iraq. Civil society has become an object
central to current ideological debate, and this book offers a
thought-provoking discussion of its beginnings, objectives, and
current nature.
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