Unnaturally French : : Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After / / Peter Sahlins.

In his rich and learned new book about the naturalization of foreigners, Peter Sahlins offers an unusual and unexpected contribution to the histories of immigration, nationality, and citizenship in France and Europe. Through a study of foreign citizens, Sahlins discovers and documents a premodern wo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2004
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (472 p.) :; 6 tables, 13 charts/graphs, 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • TABLES
  • PREFACE
  • Introduction: Citizenship, Immigration, and Nationality Avant La Lettre
  • PART ONE. FOREIGNERS & CITIZENS IN EARLY MODERN FRANCE
  • CHAPTER ONE. THE MAKING OF THE ABSOLUTE CITIZEN
  • CHAPTER TWO. THE LETTER OF NATURALIZATION IN THE OLD REGIME
  • CHAPTER THREE. THE USE AND ABUSE OF NATURALIZATION
  • PART TWO. A SOCIAL HISTORY OF FOREIGN CITIZENS, I66o-1789
  • CHAPTER FOUR. STATUS AND SOCIOPROFESSIONAL IDENTITIES
  • CHAPTER FIVE. GEOGRAPHIC ORIGINS AND RESIDENCE
  • CHAPTER SIX. TEMPORAL PATTERNS OF NATURALIZATION
  • PART THREE. THE CITIZENSHIP REVOLUTION FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW REGIME
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. FROM LAW TO POLITICS BEFORE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. NATURALIZATION AND THE DROIT D'AUBAINE FROM THE FRENCH REVOLUTION TO THE BOURBON RESTORATION
  • CONCLUSION. ENDING THE OLD REGIME IN 1819
  • APPENDIX 1. SOURCES OF THE STATISTICAL STUDY OF NATURALIZATIONS, r66o-r790
  • APPENDIX 2. TREATIES WITH FRANCE ABOLISHING OR EXEMPTING FOREIGNERS FROM THE DROIT D'AUBAINE, I753-I79I
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX