Citizenship and Nationhood in France and GermanyThe difference between French and German definitions of citizenship is instructive—and, for millions of immigrants from North Africa, Turkey, and Eastern Europe, decisive. Rogers Brubaker shows how this difference—between the territorial basis of the French citizenry and the German emphasis on blood descent—was shaped and sustained by sharply differing understandings of nationhood, rooted in distinctive French and German paths to nation-statehood. |
Contents
Citizenship as Social Closure | 21 |
The French Revolution and the Invention of National Citizenship | 35 |
State StateSystem and Citizenship in Germany | 50 |
DEFINING THE CITIZENRY THE BOUNDS OF BELONGING | 73 |
Citizenship and Naturalization in France and Germany | 75 |
Migrants into Citizens The Crystallization of Jus Soli in LateNineteenthCentury France | 85 |
The Citizenry as Community of Descent The Nationalization of Citizenship in Wilhelmine Germany | 114 |
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