Citizenship and nationhood in France and Germany
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Author
Publication
1992 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
67,500 words, Guess
Page Count
270 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivecitizenshipnatio00brub
- ISBN-100674131770
- ISBN-100674131789
- ISBN-139780674131774
- ISBN-139780674131781
and 4 more
- Library of Congress Control Number91042897
- OCLC Control Number25008595
- Better World Books9780674131781
- Open LibraryOL24751683M
Classifications
- DDC323.6/0944
- LCCJN2919 .B78 1992
- LCCJN2919.B78 1992
Description
The state, wrote Aristotle, "is a compound made up of citizens; and this compels us to consider who should properly be called a citizen and what a citizen really is." These are the questions, with their broad implications for the modern nation-state, that Rogers Brubaker addresses here. In a time when the flow of information, capital, and immigration has blurred the definition of the state, Brubaker's sustained analysis of the origins and vicissitudes of citizenship in France and Germany reveals much about civic boundaries in the modern world. The difference between French and German definitions of citizenship is instructive - and, for millions of immigrants from North Africa, Turkey, and Eastern Europe, decisive. Brubaker explores this difference - between the territorial basis of the French citizenry and the German emphasis on blood descent - and shows how it translates into rights and restrictions for millions of would-be French and German citizens. Why French citizenship is territorially inclusive, and German citizenship ethnically exclusive, becomes clear in Brubaker's historical account of distinctive French and German paths to nation-statehood. Two fundamental legal principles of national citizenship emerge from this analysis, leading Brubaker to broad and original observations on the constitution of the modern state. We live in a world bounded and defined by the legal institution of citizenship. The plight of immigrants moving across Western Europe has made this a particularly salient point, one frequently missed but finally brought into sharp focus here. Linking law, state, economy, and culture across two countries and centuries, this book offers a powerful explanation of forces that shape the modern world and delineate its future.
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