Property and Civil Society in South-Western Germany 1820-1914

by Jonathan Sperber

Historians have often employed the concept of civil society, an intermediary realm between the family and the state, to analyse nineteenth-century Europe and North America. They have concentrated on voluntary associations, the press and public meetings, the constituent elements of J rgen Habermas's 'public sphere', in doing so overlooking a central element of nineteenth-century civil society: property and its disposition, whether within the family...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019928475X
• ISBN13: 9780199284757
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"