Hopeful monsters
Subtitle: empire and the birth of civil society
By: James Livese.
Series: Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century studies
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780300139020
Subjects: Civil society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Civil society -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 18th century; Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1760-1820
Description: Livesey traces the origins of the modern conceptions of civil society to Ireland and Scotland during the 18th century, arguing that it was invented as an idea of renewed community for provincial and defeated élites to allow them to enjoy liberty without participating in governance.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Coffee, association, and cultural hybridity in seventeenth-century England improvement and the discourse of society in eighteenth-century Ireland; title: The authority of the defeated: catholic languages of the moral order in the eighteenth century; title: The experience of empire: the black family, britons, and the emergence of society; title: A habitat for hopeful monsters: David Hume and the Scottish theorists of ivil; title: Society; title: Society and empire in revolution: Ireland and Britain in the 1790s.