A Brief History Of Citizenship

Author : Derek Heater
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814736722

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From Plato to Rorty, A Brief History of Citizenship provides a concise survey of the idea of citizenship. All major periods are covered, beginning with Greece and Rome, continuing on to the Middle Ages, the American and French Revolutions, and finally to the modern era. Heater effectively argues that we cannot begin to understand our current conditions until we have an understanding of the initial idea of "the citizen" and how that idea has evolved over the centuries. Important topics covered include how citizenship differs from other forms of sociopolitical identity, the differences between nationality and citizenship, and how multiculturalism has changed our ideas of citizenship in the twenty-first century. This concise and readable book is an ideal introduction to the history of citizenship.

Author : Derek Heater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1903328241

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History of Citizenship by Derek Heater Pdf

Author : Derek Heater
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 071906841X

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Citizenship by Derek Heater Pdf

Citizenship describes, analyzes and interprets the topic of citizenship in a global context as it has developed historically, in its variations as a political concept and status, and the ways in which citizens have been and are being educated for that status. The book provides a historical survey which ranges from the Ancient Greeks to the twentieth century, and reveals the legacies which each era passed on to later centuries. It explains the meaning of citizenship, what political citizenship entails and the nature of citizenship as a status, and also tackles the issue of whether there can be a generally accepted, holistic understanding of the idea. For this new edition an epilogue has been written which demonstrates the intense nature of the academic and pedagogical debates on the subject as well as the practical matters relating to the status since 1990.

Author : Derek Benjamin Heater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : 1903328012

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History of Citizenship by Derek Benjamin Heater Pdf

Author : Derek Benjamin Heater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : OCLC:1303432400

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A Brief History of Citizenship by Derek Benjamin Heater Pdf

Author : Paul Magnette
Publisher : ECPR Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780954796655

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Citizenship: The History of an Idea by Paul Magnette Pdf

Citizenship is the main axis of modern political legitimacy... But for all its evident centrality to modern politics, it would be quite wrong to assume that citizenship itself is well understood. "Paul Magnette's book offers an economical and illuminating guide through many of the elements which have gone into the intellectual and ideological history of modern citizenship. In doing so, he clearly surpasses any other recent analysis in any language known to me. This is a book to read closely and reflect on with the utmost care. It is our story; and to make a wiser future we must learn to understand it a great deal better. In that exacting and pressing task Paul Magnette's lucid and patient book offers nothing but help". John Dunn, University of Cambridge

Author : Dorothy Chunn,Robert Menzies,Robert Adamoski
Publisher : Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015052300038

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Contesting Canadian Citizenship by Dorothy Chunn,Robert Menzies,Robert Adamoski Pdf

Over the past 15 years, the citizenship debate in political and social theory has undergone an extraordinary renaissance. To date, much of the writing on citizenship, within and beyond Canada, has been oriented toward the development of theory, or has concentrated on contemporary issues and examples. This collection of essays adopts a different approach by contextualizing and historicizing the citizenship debate, through studies of various aspects of the rise of social citizenship in Canada. Focusing on the formative years from the late 19th through mid-20th century, contributors examine how emerging discourse and practices in diverse areas of Canadian social life created a widely engaged, but often deeply contested, vision of the new Canadian citizen. The original essays examine key developments in the fields of welfare, justice, health, childhood, family, immigration, education, labour, media, popular culture and recreation, highlighting the contradictory nature of Canadian citizenship. The implications of these projects for the daily lives of Canadians, their identities, and the forms of resistance that they mounted, are central themes. Contributing authors situate their historical accounts in both public and private domains, their analyses emphasizing the mutual permeability of state and civil(ian) life. These diverse investigations reveal that while Canadian citizenship conveys crucial images of identity, security, and participatory democracy within the ongoing project of nation building, it is also interlaced with the projects of a hierarchical social structure and exclusionary political order. This collection explores the origins and evolution of Canadian citizenship in historical context. It also introduces the more general dilemmas and debates in social history and political theory that inevitably inform these inquiries.

Author : James H. Kettner
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807839768

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The Development of American Citizenship, 1608-1870 by James H. Kettner Pdf

he concept of citizenship that achieved full legal form and force in mid-nineteenth-century America had English roots in the sense that it was the product of a theoretical and legal development that extended over three hundred years. This prize-winning volume describes and explains the process by which the cirumstances of life in the New World transformed the quasi-medieval ideas of seventeenth-century English jurists about subjectship, community, sovereignty, and allegiance into a wholly new doctrine of "volitional allegiance." The central British idea was that subjectship involved a personal relationship with the king, a relationship based upon the laws of nature and hence perpetual and immutable. The conceptual analogue of the subject-king relationship was the natural bond between parent and child. Across the Atlantic divergent ideas were taking hold. Colonial societies adopted naturalization policies that were suited to practical needs, regardless of doctrinal consistency. Americans continued to value their status as subjects and to affirm their allegiance to the king, but they also moved toward a new understanding of the ties that bind individuals to the community. English judges of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries assumed that the essential purpose of naturalization was to make the alien legally the same as a native, that is, to make his allegiance natural, personal, and perpetual. In the colonies this reasoning was being reversed. Americans took the model of naturalization as their starting point for defining all political allegiance as the result of a legal contract resting on consent. This as yet barely articulated difference between the American and English definition of citizenship was formulated with precision in the course of the American Revolution. Amidst the conflict and confusion of that time Americans sought to define principles of membership that adequately encompassed their ideals of individual liberty and community security. The idea that all obligation rested on individual volition and consent shaped their response to the claims of Parliament and king, legitimized their withdrawal from the British empire, controlled their reaction to the loyalists, and underwrote their creation of independent governments. This new concept of citizenship left many questions unanswered, however. The newly emergent principles clashed with deep-seated prejudices, including the traditional exclusion of Indians and Negroes from membership in the sovereign community. It was only the triumph of the Union in the Civil War that allowed Congress to affirm the quality of native and naturalized citizens, to state unequivocally the primacy of the national over state citizenship, to write black citizenship into the Constitution, and to recognize the volitional character of, the status of citizen by formally adopting the principle of expatriation.-->

Author : Dimitry Kochenov
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262537797

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Citizenship by Dimitry Kochenov Pdf

The story of citizenship as a tale not of liberation, dignity, and nationhood but of complacency, hypocrisy, and domination. The glorification of citizenship is a given in today's world, part of a civic narrative that invokes liberation, dignity, and nationhood. In reality, explains Dimitry Kochenov, citizenship is a story of complacency, hypocrisy, and domination, flattering to citizens and demeaning for noncitizens. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Kochenov explains the state of citizenship in the modern world. Kochenov offers a critical introduction to a subject most often regarded uncritically, describing what citizenship is, what it entails, how it came about, and how its role in the world has been changing. He examines four key elements of the concept: status, considering how and why the status of citizenship is extended, what function it serves, and who is left behind; rights, particularly the right to live and work in a state; duties, and what it means to be a “good citizen”; and politics, as enacted in the granting and enjoyment of citizenship. Citizenship promises to apply the attractive ideas of dignity, equality, and human worth—but to strictly separated groups of individuals. Those outside the separation aren't citizens as currently understood, and they do not belong. Citizenship, Kochenov warns, is too often a legal tool that justifies violence, humiliation, and exclusion.

Author : Derek Heater
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134407293

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A History of Education for Citizenship by Derek Heater Pdf

In this unique examination of education for citizenship, Derek Heater covers two and a half millennia of history encompassing every continent. Education for citizenship is considered from its classical origins through to ideas of world citizenship and multiculturalism which are relevant today. The book reveals the constants of motives, policies, recommendations and practices in this field and the variables determined by political, social and economic circumstances, which in turn illustrate the reasons behind education for citizenship today. Sections covered include: * Classical origins * The age of rebellions and revolutions * Education for liberal democracy * Totalitarianism and transitions * Multiple citizenship education. A History of Education for Citizenship will be of interest to teachers and students of citizenship, particularly those concerned with citizenship education. It will also be of interest to those working in the field of politics of education and history of education.

Author : Richard Bellamy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192802538

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Citizenship: A Very Short Introduction by Richard Bellamy Pdf

Interest in citizenship has never been higher. But what does it mean to be a citizen in a modern, complex community? Richard Bellamy approaches the subject of citizenship from a political perspective and, in clear and accessible language, addresses the complexities behind this highly topical issue.

Author : Mike Moore
Publisher : Longacre Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113033182

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A Brief History of the Future by Mike Moore Pdf

This book is about how we can move from a century of coercion to a new century of persuasion. It is, in part, an attempt to overcome what Mike Moore calls a democratic deficit. As well, the book advances the doctrine of independence through interdependence, arguing that the interests and independence of sovereign statess are best safeguarded and promoted through international agreements, treaties and institutions. It is argued that for the sake of our survival we must build respect and trust in international institutions and the rule of law so we can conduct our affairs and resolve our differences peacefully. It promotes the view that we must evolve a new level of citizenship both locally and internationally for the new millennium.

Author : Kim Cary Warren
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807899445

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The Quest for Citizenship by Kim Cary Warren Pdf

In The Quest for Citizenship, Kim Cary Warren examines the formation of African American and Native American citizenship, belonging, and identity in the United States by comparing educational experiences in Kansas between 1880 and 1935. Warren focuses her study on Kansas, thought by many to be the quintessential free state, not only because it was home to sizable populations of Indian groups and former slaves, but also because of its unique history of conflict over freedom during the antebellum period. After the Civil War, white reformers opened segregated schools, ultimately reinforcing the very racial hierarchies that they claimed to challenge. To resist the effects of these reformers' actions, African Americans developed strategies that emphasized inclusion and integration, while autonomy and bicultural identities provided the focal point for Native Americans' understanding of what it meant to be an American. Warren argues that these approaches to defining American citizenship served as ideological precursors to the Indian rights and civil rights movements. This comparative history of two nonwhite races provides a revealing analysis of the intersection of education, social control, and resistance, and the formation and meaning of identity for minority groups in America.

Author : Lorrin Thomas
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226796109

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Puerto Rican Citizen by Lorrin Thomas Pdf

By the end of the 1920s, just ten years after the Jones Act first made them full-fledged Americans, more than 45,000 native Puerto Ricans had left their homes and entered the United States, citizenship papers in hand, forming one of New York City’s most complex and distinctive migrant communities. In Puerto Rican Citizen, Lorrin Thomas for the first time unravels the many tensions—historical, racial, political, and economic—that defined the experience of this group of American citizens before and after World War II. Building its incisive narrative from a wide range of archival sources, interviews, and first-person accounts of Puerto Rican life in New York, this book illuminates the rich history of a group that is still largely invisible to many scholars. At the center of Puerto Rican Citizen are Puerto Ricans’ own formulations about political identity, the responses of activists and ordinary migrants to the failed promises of American citizenship, and their expectations of how the American state should address those failures. Complicating our understanding of the discontents of modern liberalism, of race relations beyond black and white, and of the diverse conceptions of rights and identity in American life, Thomas’s book transforms the way we understand this community’s integral role in shaping our sense of citizenship in twentieth-century America.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004472860

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Commerce, Citizenship, and Identity in Legal History by Anonim Pdf

Legal historians have analysed the characteristics of merchant guilds and nationes (i.e., associations of foreign merchants), as well as the political clout of merchants, including foreign ones. However, how the legal status of citizens related to the merchant class and how its contents were influenced by trade remains largely unclear.