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Unnaturally French - Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After (Paperback, New)
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Unnaturally French - Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After (Paperback, New)
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In his rich and learned new book about the naturalization of
foreigners, Peter Sahlins offers an unusual and unexpected
contribution to the histories of immigration, nationality, and
citizenship in France and Europe. Through a study of foreign
citizens, Sahlins discovers and documents a premodern world of
legal citizenship, its juridical and administrative fictions, and
its social practices. Telling the story of naturalization from the
sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, Unnaturally French
offers an original interpretation of the continuities and ruptures
of absolutist and modern citizenship, in the process challenging
the historiographical centrality of the French
Revolution.Unnaturally French is a brilliant synthesis of social,
legal, and political history. At its core are the tens of thousands
of foreign citizens whose exhaustively researched social identities
and geographic origins are presented here for the first time.
Sahlins makes a signal contribution to the legal history of
nationality in his comprehensive account of the theory, procedure,
and practice of naturalization. In his political history of the
making and unmaking of the French absolute monarchy, Sahlins
considers the shifting policies toward immigrants, foreign
citizens, and state membership.Sahlins argues that the absolute
citizen, exemplified in Louis XIV's attempt to tax all foreigners
in 1697, gave way to new practices in the middle of the eighteenth
century. This "citizenship revolution," long before 1789, produced
changes in private and in political culture that led to the
abolition of the distinction between foreigners and citizens.
Sahlins shows how the Enlightenment and the political failure of
the monarchy in France laid the foundations for the development of
an exclusively political citizen, in opposition to the absolute
citizen who had been above all a legal subject. The author
completes his original book with a study of naturalization under
Napoleon and the Bourbon Restoration. Tracing the twisted history
of the foreign citizen from the Old Regime to the New, Sahlins
sheds light on the continuities and ruptures of the revolutionary
process, and also its consequences.
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