Graeme Morton Boudien de Vries and R.J. Morris
Ashgate
Hardback
234
2006
Civil society has become central to the historian's understanding of class cultural and political power in the nineteenth century town and city. 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. The volume shows that a deep and interlocking civil society does not automatically lead to a rise in democratic activity.