Civil society and empire : Ireland and Scotland in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world / James Livesey.

• 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 civil society -- Civil society and empire in revolution: Ireland and Britain in the 1790s.

• 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. 

Ämnesord

Politiska förhållanden  (sao)

Civil society  -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. (LCSH)

Civil society  -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century. (LCSH)

Civil society  -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century. (LCSH)

Bürgerliche Gesellschaft  (swd)

Civila samhället  -- historia -- Storbritannien -- 1700-talet (sao)

Civila samhället  -- historia -- Irland -- 1700-talet (sao)

Civila samhället  -- historia -- Skottland -- 1700-talet (sao)

Great Britain  -- Politics and government -- 18th century. (LCSH)

Ireland  -- Politics and government -- 1760-1820. (LCSH)

Scotland  -- Politics and government -- 18th century. (LCSH)

Great Britain  -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 18th century. (LCSH)

Schottland  (swd)

Irland  (swd)

Storbritannien  -- historia -- 1700-talet (sao)

Irland  -- historia -- 1700-talet (sao)

Skottland  -- historia -- 1700-talet (sao)

Geschichte 1700-1800  (swd)

Klassifikation

JN210 (LCC)

941.07 (DDC)

15.70 (bcl)

Ke (kssb/8 (machine generated))