Paradoxes of civil society: new perspectives on modern German and British history
Introduction : Paradoxes of civil society / Frank Trentmann -- Reflections on the making of civility in society / John A. Hall -- "The commerce of the sexes" : gender and the social sphere in Scottish enlightenment accounts of civil society / Mary Catherine Moran -- Kant, Smith, and Hegel : the market and the categorical imperative / Rupert H. Gordon -- Immanuel Kant's two theories of civil society / Elisabeth Ellis -- The intelligence gazette (Intelligenzblatt) as a road map to civil society : information networks and local dynamism in Germany, 1770s-1840s / Ian F. McNeely -- Club culture and social authority : Freemasonry in Leipzig, 1741-1830 / Robert Beachy -- Energy, willpower, and harmony : on the problematic relationship between state and civil society in nineteenth-century Germany / Daniel A. McMillan -- Civic culture, women's foreign missions, and the British intelligence imagination, 1860-1914 / Steven S. Maughan -- The village goes public : peasants and press in nineteenth-century Altbayern / John Abbott -- Religion and civil society : Catholics, Jesuits, and Protestants in Imperial Germany / Róisín Healy -- Prostitutes, civil society, and the state in Weimar Germany / Julia Roos -- Oligarchs, liberals, and Mittelstand : defining civil society in Hamburg, 1858-1862 / Madeleine Hurd -- Civil society, commerce, and the "citizen-consumer" : popular meanings of free trade in modern Britain / Frank Trentmann -- Socialism, civil society, and the state in modern Britain / Mark Bevir -- Civil society in the aftermath of the Great War : the care of disabled veterans in Britain and Germany / Deborah Cohen