Europe
New Views on Citizenship and National Identity in Early Modern France
By , University of Northern Iowa (July 2004)
Sections: Europe
Subjects: Nations and Peoples, History.
Places: Western Europe, Europe.
Periods: 1000 - 1999, 1600-1699, 1700-1799.
Key Topics: nationalism, migration, identity.
Abstract
This article explores new ideas about the development of standards of citizenship and national identity in early modern France. Rather than appearing full-blown at the time of the French Revolution, French citizenship has a prehistory going back at least as far as the fifteenth century.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2004.00078.x
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