A Brief History of Citizenship - Softcover

Heater, Professor Derek

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814736726 ISBN 13: 9780814736722

Publisher: New York University Press, 2004

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

"An excellent historical account of citizenship . . . Heater's work has a depth and solidity that is missing elsewhere. This is another excellent book from the leading authority in the field."

-Ian Davies, author of Talking Politics

"An admirably clear, concise and entertaining survey of the different forms citizenship has taken from ancient to modern times."

-Keith Faulks, author of Citizenship

About the Author:

Derek Heater is the author of World Citizenship, A History of Education and Citizenship and What Is Citizenship?

About this edition

• Publisher: New York University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0814736726
• ISBN 13: 9780814736722
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 155