Patterns of Social Capital: Stability and Change in Historical Perspective

by Edited by Robert I. Rotberg

• ISBN13: 9780521785754
• ISBN10: 0521785758
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-27
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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 to create 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 indicators of citizen readiness for civic engagement. This book is ultimately about the pattern of social and civic interactions in past times, and how these patterns may no longer exist.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Social Capital and Political Culture in Africa, America, Australasia, and Europe	1	(18)
Robert I. Rotberg
Articles
Civic Traditions in Premodern Italy	19	(22)
Gene Brucker
The Sources of Civil Society in Italy	41	(28)
Edward Muir
Finding Social Capital: The French Revolution in Italy	69	(28)
Raymond Grew
Social Capital in the Early Industrial Revolution	97	(24)
Leonard N. Rosenband
The Diversity of Social Capital in English Communities, 1300--1640 (with a Glance at Modern Nigeria)	121	(32)
Marjorie K. McIntosh
Social and Cultural Capital in Colonial British America: A Case Study	153	(20)
Jack P. Greene
The Growth of Voluntary Associations in America, 1840--1940	173	(48)
Gerald Gamm
Robert D. Putnam
Civil Society as Democratic Practice: North American Cities during the Nineteenth Century	221	(26)
Mary P. Ryan
Securing Political Returns to Social Capital: Women's Associations in the United States, 1880s--1920s	247	(26)
Elisabeth S. Clemens
Second---Generation Civic America: Education, Citizenship, and the Children of Immigrants	273	(22)
Reed Ueda
Human Capital and Social Capital The Rise of Secondary Schooling in America, 1910--1940	295	(42)
Claudia goldin
Lawrence F. Katz
From Local to National Political Cultures: Social Capital and Civic Organization in the Great Plains	337	(38)
Myron P. Gutmann
Sara M. Pullum
Civility, Social Capital, and Civil Society: Three Powerful Concepts for Explaining Asia	375
Lucian W. Pye