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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      12 April 2010
      27 November 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511572777
      9780521780865
      9780521785754
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511572777
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.66kg, 408 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.542kg, 408 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History, Regional History after 1500
      Series:
      Studies in Interdisciplinary History
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    History, Regional History after 1500
    Series:
    Studies in Interdisciplinary History
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    Societies work best where citizens trust their fellow citizens, work cooperatively for common goals, and thus share a civic culture. The accumulation of reciprocal trust, as demonstrated by voluntary efforts for the creation of common goods, builds social capital and contributes to effective government. This volume advances the study of social capital across chronological and geographical space. It examines voluntary associations, comparatively and cross-culturally, as important indicators of citizen readiness for civic engagement. An important conclusion, along the way, is that social capital may not be continuous, or endure. Several of the authors wonder if the accumulation and diminution of social capital will prove cyclical. Or has there been a societal deterioration as we enter a more anonymous age? This book is ultimately about the pattern of social and civic interactions in past times, and how these patterns may no longer exist.

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    ‘… these contributions are well researched, high-quality studies of the patterns of social capital in differently times and places …’.

    Source: Progress in Human Geography

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