Citizenship and nationhood in France and Germany / Rogers Brubaker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brubaker, Rogers, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship--France.

Citizenship.

Naturalization--France.

Naturalization.

Nationalism--France--History.

Nationalism.

Citizenship--Germany.

Naturalization--Germany.

Nationalism--Germany--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 270 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

9780674028944

0674028945

OCLC:

923108532