ISBN:
9780691171845
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 205 Seiten
Series Statement:
The Lawrence Stone Lectures 9
DDC:
323.609
Keywords:
Citizenship
;
Equality
;
Staatsbürger
;
Gleichheit
;
Staatsangehörigkeit
;
Soziale Ungleichheit
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
"Offers an overview of citizenship's complex evolution, from ancient Rome to the present. Political leaders and thinkers still debate, as they did in Republican Rome, whether the presumed equivalence of citizens is compatible with cultural diversity and economic inequality. The author presents citizenship as 'claim-making'--the assertion of rights in a political entity. What those rights should be and to whom they should apply have long been subjects for discussion and political mobilization, while the kind of political entity in which claims and counterclaims have been made has varied over time and space. Citizenship ideas were first shaped in the context of empires. The relationship of citizenship to 'nation' and 'empire' was hotly debated after the revolutions in France and the Americas, and claims to 'imperial citizenship' continued to be made in the mid-twentieth century. [The author] examines struggles over citizenship in the Spanish, French, British, Ottoman, Russian, Soviet, and American empires, and ... explains the reconfiguration of citizenship questions after the collapse of empires in Africa and India. The author explores the tension today between individualistic and social conceptions of citizenship, as well as between citizenship as an exclusionary notion and flexible and multinational conceptions of citizenship."--
Abstract:
A succinct and comprehensive history of the development of citizenship from the Roman Empire to the present dayCitizenship, Inequality, and Difference offers a concise and sweeping overview of citizenship's complex evolution, from ancient Rome to the present. Political leaders and thinkers still debate, as they did in Republican Rome, whether the presumed equivalence of citizens is compatible with cultural diversity and economic inequality. Frederick Cooper presents citizenship as "claim-making"--the assertion of rights in a political entity. What those rights should be and to whom they should apply have long been subjects for discussion and political mobilization, while the kind of political entity in which claims and counterclaims have been made has varied over time and space. Citizenship ideas were first shaped in the context of empires. The relationship of citizenship to "nation" and "empire" was hotly debated after the revolutions in France and the Americas, and claims to "imperial citizenship" continued to be made in the mid-twentieth century. Cooper examines struggles over citizenship in the Spanish, French, British, Ottoman, Russian, Soviet, and American empires, and he explains the reconfiguration of citizenship questions after the collapse of empires in Africa and India. He explores the tension today between individualistic and social conceptions of citizenship, as well as between citizenship as an exclusionary notion and flexible and multinational conceptions of citizenship. Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference is a historically based reflection on some of the most fundamental issues facing human societies in the past and present
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION Citizenship and Belonging -- CHAPTER 1 Imperial Citizenship from the Roman Republic to the Edict of Caracalla -- CHAPTER 2 Citizenship and Empire-Europe and Beyond -- CHAPTER 3 Empires, Nations, and Citizenship in the Twentieth Century -- CONCLUSION Citizenship in an Unequal World -- Notes -- Index
Description / Table of Contents:
Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Preface -- -- Introduction. Citizenship and Belonging -- -- Chapter one. Imperial Citizenship from the Roman Republic to the Edict of Caracalla -- -- Chapter two. Citizenship and Empire - Europe and Beyond -- -- Chapter three. Empires, Nations, and Citizenship in the Twentieth Century -- -- Conclusion. Citizenship in an Unequal World -- -- Notes -- -- Index
Note:
De Gruyter - University Press Pilot Project. eBook available to select US libraries only
,
In English
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