Nationality and Citizenship in Revolutionary France: The Treatment of Foreigners 1789-1799 - Hardcover

Rapport, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0198208456 ISBN 13: 9780198208457

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2000

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Book by Rapport Michael

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Críticas:

... well-researched and cogently argued. (English Historical Review)

Nationality and Citizenship in Revolutionary France is a fine book that merits space of the shelf of all collections that specialize in the French Revolution or the emergence of the two distinctly related and modern concepts of nationality and citizenship (History)

Michael Rapport has produced an interesting, concise and nuanced work which will be of interest to a wide range of historians (Reviews in History)

Excellent study of foreign populations in France during the first decade of the Revolution (Sixteenth Century Journal)

Well written and well organized ... This book nicely complements the works of Sobul, Mathiez, Arendt, and Wahnich and will be of interest to students of French citizenship and the roots of modern nationalism (CHOICE)

Reseña del editor:

In 1789 the French Revolution opened with a cosmopolitan flourish and progressive observers across the world hailed a new era of international fraternity, based on a new kind of politics. Foreigners were welcomed to France, to enrich the regenerated nation and to become citizens. By the Terror of 1793-94, however, this universalist promise had all but died. Some foreigners in France were guillotined, hundreds of others were jailed, expelled, watched closely and were obliged to carry special identity cards. How and why foreignors were squeezed out of French social and political life- and to what extent- is the subject of this book.

Besides such issues as citizenship, nationality, passports and surveillance, this study considers the experience of specific types of foreignors, like those who served in the French army; in the clergy; foreign radicals or patriots; and those who contributed to French economic life. The dramatic transformation in the fortunes of foreignors during the revolution reveals much about the origins of modern concepts of nationality and citizenship and the development of national identities. In defining the limit of the nation, the revolutionaries and foreignors alike faced difficulties which have particular ressonance today.

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• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0198208456
• ISBN 13: 9780198208457
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 392