Contents
Preface
Introduction: Traditions of Nationhood in France and Germany
I. THE INSTITUTION OF CITIZENSHIP
1. Citizenship as Social Closure
2. The French Revolution and the Invention of National Citizenship
3. State, State-System, and Citizenship in Germany
II. DEFINING THE CITIZENRY: THE BOUNDS OF BELONGING
4. Citizenship and Naturalization in France and Germany
5. Migrants into Citizens: The Crystallization of Jus Soli in Late-Nineteenth-Century France
6. The Citizenry as Community of Descent: The Nationalization of Citizenship in Wilhelmine Germany
7. “Etre Français, Cela se Mérite”: Immigration andthe Politics of Citizenship in France in the 1980s
8. Continuities in the German Politics of Citizenship
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index