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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777399203321

Autore

Brubaker Rogers <1956->

Titolo

Citizenship and nationhood in France and Germany / / Rogers Brubaker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass. : , : Harvard University Press, , 1992

©1992

ISBN

0-674-02894-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 270 pages)

Disciplina

323.60943

Soggetti

Citizenship - France

Naturalization - France

Nationalism - France - History

Citizenship - Germany

Naturalization - Germany

Nationalism - Germany - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-265) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Traditions of Nationhood in France and Germany -- I. THE INSTITUTION OF CITIZENSHIP -- 1. Citizenship as Social Closure -- 2. The French Revolution and the Invention of National Citizenship -- 3. State, State-System, and Citizenship in Germany -- II. DEFINING THE CITIZENRY: THE BOUNDS OF BELONGING -- 4. Citizenship and Naturalization in France and Germany -- 5. Migrants into Citizens: The Crystallization of Jus Soli in Late-Nineteenth-Century France -- 6. The Citizenry as Community of Descent: The Nationalization of Citizenship in Wilhelmine Germany -- 7. “Etre Français, Cela se Mérite”: Immigration and the Politics of Citizenship in France in the 1980s -- 8. Continuities in the German Politics of Citizenship -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Focusing on the origins of citizenship in France and Germany and their different definitions of citizenship (French territorial basis and German blood descent emphasis), this text examines two fundamental legal principles of national citizenship and explores the constitution of the modern state.