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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.

Examines voluntary associations, comparatively and cross-culturally, as indicators of citizen readiness for civic engagement.

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

 Social Capital and Political Culture in Africa, America, Australasia, and Europe / Robert I. Rotberg = 1

ARTICLES

 Civic Traditions in Premodern Italy / Gene Brucker = 19

 The Sources of Civil Society in Italy / Edward Muir = 41

 Finding Social Capital : The French Revolution in Italy / Raymond Grew = 69

 Social Capital in the Early Industrial Revolution / Leonard N. Rosenband = 97

 The Diversity of Social Capital in English Communities, 1300-1640(with a Glance at Modern Nigeria) / Marjorie K. McIntosh = 121

 Social and Cultural Capital in Colonial British America : A Case Study / Jack P. Greene = 153

 The Growth of Voluntary Associations in America, 1840-1940 / Gerald Gamm ; Robert D. Putnam = 173

 Civil Society as Democratic Practice : North American Cities during the Nineteenth Century / Mary P. Ryan = 221

 Securing Political Returns to Social Capital : Women's Associations in the United States, 1880s-1920s / Elisabeth S. Clemens = 247

 Second-Generation Civic America : Education, Citizenship, and the Children of I mmigrants / Reed Ueda = 273

 Human Capital and Social Capital The Rise of Secondary Schooling in America, 1910-1940 / Claudia Goldin ; Lawrence F. Katz = 295