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Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany

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$31.50 • £23.95 • €28.40

ISBN 9780674131781

Publication: August 1998

Short

288 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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. 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.