LEADER 04126nam 22006135 450 001 996248342503316 005 20190708092533.0 010 $a0-691-17145-9 010 $a1-4008-5028-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400850280 035 $a(CKB)2550000001314317 035 $a(EBL)1648731 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001292208 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11739513 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001292208 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11248849 035 $a(PQKB)11335352 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1648731 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001755582 035 $a(OCoLC)881366618 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43216 035 $a(DE-B1597)453978 035 $a(OCoLC)979742400 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400850280 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001314317 100 $a20190708d2014 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCitizenship between Empire and Nation $eRemaking France and French Africa, 1945-1960 /$fFrederick Cooper 205 $aCourse Book 210 1$aPrinceton, NJ : $cPrinceton University Press, $d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (513 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-16131-3 311 $a1-306-86213-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [449]-465) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Illustrations -- $tPreface -- $tNotes on Language and Abbreviations -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter 1. From French Empire to French Union -- $tChapter 2. A Constitution for an Empire of Citizens -- $tChapter 3. Defining Citizenship, 1946-1956 -- $tChapter 4. Claiming Citizenship -- $tChapter 5. Reframing France -- $tChapter 6. From Overseas Territory to Member State -- $tChapter 7. Unity and Division in Africa and France, 1958-1959 -- $tChapter 8. Becoming National -- $tConclusion -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aAs the French public debates its present diversity and its colonial past, few remember that between 1946 and 1960 the inhabitants of French colonies possessed the rights of French citizens. Moreover, they did not have to conform to the French civil code that regulated marriage and inheritance. One could, in principle, be a citizen and different too. Citizenship between Empire and Nation examines momentous changes in notions of citizenship, sovereignty, nation, state, and empire in a time of acute uncertainty about the future of a world that had earlier been divided into colonial empires.Frederick Cooper explains how African political leaders at the end of World War II strove to abolish the entrenched distinction between colonial "subject" and "citizen." They then used their new status to claim social, economic, and political equality with other French citizens, in the face of resistance from defenders of a colonial order. Africans balanced their quest for equality with a desire to express an African political personality. They hoped to combine a degree of autonomy with participation in a larger, Franco-African ensemble. French leaders, trying to hold on to a large French polity, debated how much autonomy and how much equality they could concede. Both sides looked to versions of federalism as alternatives to empire and the nation-state. The French government had to confront the high costs of an empire of citizens, while Africans could not agree with French leaders or among themselves on how to balance their contradictory imperatives. Cooper shows how both France and its former colonies backed into more "national" conceptions of the state than either had sought. 606 $aDecolonization$zAfrica$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aHISTORY / Africa / General$2bisacsh 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDecolonization$xHistory 615 7$aHISTORY / Africa / General. 676 $a327.44066 700 $aCooper$b Frederick, $0144285 801 0$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248342503316 996 $aCitizenship between empire and nation$91553161 997 $aUNISA