Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Livesey, James.

Title Civil society and empire : Ireland and Scotland in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world / James Livese
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009

Copies

Description 1 online resource (x, 294 pages)
Series The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
Contents Coffee, association, and cultural hybridity in seventeenth-century England improvement and the discourse of society in eighteenth-century Ireland -- The authority of the defeated: catholic languages of the moral order in the eighteenth century -- The experience of empire: the black family, britons, and the emergence of society -- A habitat for hopeful monsters: David Hume and the Scottish theorists of ivil -- Society -- Society and empire in revolution: Ireland and Britain in the 1790s
Summary Livesey traces the origins of the modern conceptions of civil society to Ireland & Scotland during the 18th century, arguing that it was invented as an idea of renewed community for provincial & defeated élites to allow them to enjoy liberty without participating in governance
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Civil society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Civil society -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century
Civil society -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century
HISTORY.
HISTORY -- General.
British colonies
Civil society
Politics and government
Bürgerliche Gesellschaft
Civil society History. -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056900
Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1760-1820. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068038
Scotland -- Politics and government -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118866
Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 18th century
Subject America
Great Britain
Ireland
Scotland
Schottland
Irland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300155907
0300155905
0300139020
9780300139020