Civil Society

'...Hoffmann has provided teachers and students alike with an intelligent and lucid introduction to key chapters in the history of civil society.' - Robert Nemes, Austrian History Yearbook 39

Civil Society' has been a global catchphrase since the end of the Cold War, and is a hot topic among academics and politicians.Civil Society' has been a global catchphrase since the end of the Cold War, and is a hot topic among academics and politicians. Understanding the evolution of this concept in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is vital to its study and this concise and incisive introduction to the transnational history of civil society is essential reading for students and scholars alike.