Citizens without nations : urban citizenship in Europe and the world, c.1000-1789 /
Citizenship is at the heart of our contemporary world but it is a particular vision of national citizenship forged in the French Revolution. In Citizens without Nations, Maarten Prak recovers the much longer tradition of urban citizenship across the medieval and early modern world. Ranging from Euro...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : worlds of citizenship
- Formal citizenship
- Urban governance : citizens and their authorities
- Economic citizenship through the guilds
- Welfare and the civic community
- Citizens, soldiers, and civic militias
- Italian city-states and their citizens
- The Dutch Republic : the federalisation of citizenship
- Citizenship in England : from the Reformation to the Glorious Revolution
- Cities and states in continental Europe
- Original citizenship in China and the Middle East
- Recreating European citizenship in the Americas
- Conclusions : citizenship before and beyond the French Revolution.
