The Soul of Civil Society : Voluntary Associations and the Public Value of Moral Habits 9780739161128, 9780739104231

Building a Civil Society: Associations, Public Life, and the Origins of Modern Italy 9781442664456

Drawing on extensive research in published and unpublished documents – including associational records, newspapers, peri

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The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society 0472088378, 9780472088379

The rise and decline of American civic life has provoked wide-ranging responses from all quarters of society. Unfortunat

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International Organizations and Global Civil Society: Histories of the Union of International Associations 9781350055636, 9781350055643, 9781350055612

The Union of International Associations (UIA) was founded in 1910, aiming to coordinate the relations and interests of i

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Adam Ferguson and the Idea of Civil Society: Moral Science in the Scottish Enlightenment 9781474413282

Examines Adam Ferguson's philosophy, political theory and social thought in the context of the Scottish Enlightenme

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Politics and Partnerships: The Role of Voluntary Associations in America's Political Past and Present 9780226109985

Exhorting people to volunteer is part of the everyday vocabulary of American politics. Routinely, members of both major

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Voluntary Associations in the Graeco-Roman World 0415135931, 9780415135931

Based upon a series of detailed case studies of associations such as early synagogues and churches, philosophical school

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Gay Voluntary Associations in New York: Public Sharing and Private Lives 9780812290363

Gay Voluntary Associations in New York examines social groups and personal experiences in the LGBT population of New Yor

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Professors and Public Ethics: Studies of Northern Moral Philosophers before the Civil War 9781501743542

Historians, as well as present-day social scientists and church leaders, should find Professors and Public Ethics a soun

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The Moral Foundations of Civil Society [2 ed.] 1560008520, 9781560008521

Wilhelm Röpke may have been the soundest economist of the twentieth century. He understood the limitations as well as th

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Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality

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