Alliance Française Library
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Titre :
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How to be French : Nationalit in the making since 1789
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Auteurs :
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Patrick Weil ;
Catherine Porter, Traducteur
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Type de document :
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texte imprimé
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Editeur :
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Duke University Press, 2008
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ISBN/ISSN/EAN :
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978-0-8223-4331-8
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Format :
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438 p.
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Catégories :
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France
Histoire / History
Politique / Politics
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Résumé :
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How to Be French is a magisterial history of French nationality law from 1789 to the present, written by Patrick Weil, one of France’s foremost historians. First published in France in 2002, it is filled with captivating human dramas, with legal professionals, and with statesmen including La Fayette, Napoleon, Clemenceau, de Gaulle, and Chirac. France has long pioneered nationality policies. It was France that first made the parent’s nationality the child’s birthright, regardless of whether the child is born on national soil, and France has changed its nationality laws more often and more significantly than any other modern democratic nation. Focusing on the political and legal confrontations that policies governing French nationality have continually evoked and the laws that have resulted, Weil teases out the rationales of lawmakers and jurists. In so doing, he definitively separates nationality from national identity. He demonstrates that nationality laws are written not to realize lofty conceptions of the nation but to address specific issues such as the autonomy of the individual in relation to the state or a sudden decline in population.
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Genre :
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Documentaire / Non Fiction
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Nature (forme/thème) :
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Histoire
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