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Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany
Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany
By Rogers Brubaker
Harvard University Press, 1992, 270 pp

A scholarly inquiry into the origins of French and German notions of nationhood and citizenship, and a work of historical and topical concern. At a time of mass immigration and growing chauvinism, this sociological-historical study of contrasting laws and practices regarding naturalization is particularly valuable. Learned, shrewd and demanding.

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