{"product_id":"citizens-without-nations-urban-citizenship-in-europe-and-the-world-c-1000-1789-hardback-9781107104037","title":"Citizens without Nations; Urban Citizenship in Europe and the World, c.1000–1789 (Hardback) 9781107104037","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCitizens without Nations\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eUrban Citizenship in Europe and the World, c.1000–1789\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExamines how urban citizenship gave many people a real stake in their own communities, even before the rise of modern democracy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMaarten Prak (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107104037, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 August 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e442 pages, 3 b\/w illus.  8 maps\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.7 x 2.5 cm, 0.83 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'The book is based on a lifetime of research in urban history, and the material is presented with clarity, concision, and enormous authority.' Christopher R. Friedrichs, The American Historical Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eCitizenship is at the heart of our contemporary world but it is a particular vision of national citizenship forged in the French Revolution. In Citizens without Nations, Maarten Prak recovers the much longer tradition of urban citizenship across the medieval and early modern world. Ranging from Europe and the American colonies to China and the Middle East, he reveals how the role of 'ordinary people' in urban politics has been systematically underestimated and how civic institutions such as neighbourhood associations, craft guilds, confraternities and civic militias helped shape local and state politics. By destroying this local form of citizenship, the French Revolution initially made Europe less, rather than more democratic. Understanding citizenship's longer-term history allows us to change the way we conceive of its future, rethink what it is that makes some societies more successful than others, and whether there are fundamental differences between European and non-European societies.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: worlds of citizenship\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Dimensions of Citizenship in European Towns: 1. Formal citizenship\u003cbr\u003e 2. Urban governance: citizens and their authorities\u003cbr\u003e 3. Economic citizenship through the guilds\u003cbr\u003e 4. Welfare and the civic community\u003cbr\u003e 5. Citizens, soldiers, and civic militias\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Cities and States, Or: The Varieties of European Citizenship: Introduction to Part II\u003cbr\u003e 6. Italian city-states and their citizens\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Dutch Republic: the federalisation of citizenship\u003cbr\u003e 8. Citizenship in England: from the Reformation to the Glorious Revolution\u003cbr\u003e 9. Cities and states in Continental Europe\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Citizenship Outside Europe: Introduction to Part III\u003cbr\u003e 10. Original citizenship in China and the Middle East\u003cbr\u003e 11. Recreating European citizenship in the Americas\u003cbr\u003e Conclusions: citizenship before and beyond the French Revolution.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e], General \u0026amp; world history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on General \u0026amp; world history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22General%20\u0026amp;%20world%20history%20%5BHBG%5D%22\"\u003eHBG\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265607029016,"sku":"9781107104037","price":82.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107104037i.jpg?v=1696793227","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/citizens-without-nations-urban-citizenship-in-europe-and-the-world-c-1000-1789-hardback-9781107104037","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}