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- Demonstrates how the so-called civil society is to be regarded as a function of the capitalist state, formed and reproduced by government decisions
- Develops a historical perspective and empirical evidence to push the state vs. civil society debate in a new direction
- Provides a comprehensive history of popular education and its material preconditions
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Education, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Anne Berg
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Department of ALM, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Samuel Edquist
About the authors
Anne Berg is Senior Lecturer in Education at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her current research focus is on the history of education.
Samuel Edquist is Senior Lecturer in Archives, Libraries, and Museums studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. His current research focusses on archives in relations to societal ideas and debates on cultural heritage and privacy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Capitalist State and the Construction of Civil Society
Book Subtitle: Public Funding and the Regulation of Popular Education in Sweden, 1870–1991
Authors: Anne Berg, Samuel Edquist
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52455-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-52454-2Published: 25 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84907-2Published: 01 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-52455-9Published: 10 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 208
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Education Policy, Sociology of Education, Education Economics, Sociology of Education