Cities and Citizenship

Book Overview

Cities and Citizenship is a prize-winning collection of essays that considers the importance of cities in the making of modern citizens. For most of the modern era the nation and not the city has been the principal domain of citizenship. This volume demonstrates, however, that cities are especially salient sites for examining the current renegotiations of citizenship, democracy, and national belonging.
Just as relations between nations are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822322749
• ISBN13: 9780822322740
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"