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Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference - Historical Perspectives (Paperback)
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Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference - Historical Perspectives (Paperback)
Series: The Lawrence Stone Lectures
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A succinct and comprehensive history of the development of
citizenship from the Roman Empire to the present day Citizenship,
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.
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