Maarten Prak

Citizens without Nations

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines how urban citizenship gave many people a real stake in their own communities, even before the rise of modern democracy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 792g
• ISBN-13: 9781107104037
• ISBN-10: 1107104033
• Artikelnr.: 51384352

Autorenporträt

Maarten Prak is Professor of Social and Economic History at the Department of History and Art History, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands. He is on the Board of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: worlds of citizenship
Part I. Dimensions of Citizenship in European Towns: 1. Formal citizenship
2. Urban governance: citizens and their authorities
3. Economic citizenship through the guilds
4. Welfare and the civic community
5. Citizens, soldiers, and civic militias
Part II. Cities and States, Or: The Varieties of European Citizenship: Introduction to Part II
6. Italian city-states and their citizens
7. The Dutch Republic: the federalisation of citizenship
8. Citizenship in England: from the Reformation to the Glorious Revolution
9. Cities and states in Continental Europe
Part III. Citizenship Outside Europe: Introduction to Part III
10. Original citizenship in China and the Middle East
11. Recreating European citizenship in the Americas
Conclusions: citizenship before and beyond the French Revolution.