How Natural Are National and Transnational Citizenship-A Historical Perspective
D Thelen - Ind. J. Global Legal Stud., 1999 - HeinOnline
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Ind. J. Global Legal Stud., 1999•HeinOnlineThe aspiration to be a" citizen of the world" reaches far back before MarthaNussbaum's
proclamation, before even Thomas Paine's and William Lloyd Garrison's, back at least to
Socrates, if we can believe Plutarch. At a time when there is so much talk about
globalization, Linda Bosniak has written an important article that reviews writings on
citizenship to explore what" denationalized" citizenship looks like in the present and might
look like in the future. My goal in this Comment is to evaluate Bosniak's observations from a …
proclamation, before even Thomas Paine's and William Lloyd Garrison's, back at least to
Socrates, if we can believe Plutarch. At a time when there is so much talk about
globalization, Linda Bosniak has written an important article that reviews writings on
citizenship to explore what" denationalized" citizenship looks like in the present and might
look like in the future. My goal in this Comment is to evaluate Bosniak's observations from a …
The aspiration to be a" citizen of the world" reaches far back before MarthaNussbaum's proclamation, before even Thomas Paine's and William Lloyd Garrison's, back at least to Socrates, if we can believe Plutarch. At a time when there is so much talk about globalization, Linda Bosniak has written an important article that reviews writings on citizenship to explore what" denationalized" citizenship looks like in the present and might look like in the future. My goal in this Comment is to evaluate Bosniak's observations from a historian's point of view.
This challenge is difficult because history is probably the most nationcentered discipline. The modern discipline of history took shape in the early nineteenth century around the promotion of the nation-State as the core identity that the new" scientific" historians wanted people to embrace. Nations, the first modern historians proclaimed, were the best vehicles through which people could fulfill their dreams and destinies. The sources left by nation-States generated the most important traces forthese nation-minded historians to collect, preserve, and study because the past of the nation-State contained the lessons that most interested the new historians. As the nineteenth century wore on, romantic nationalism and emergence of national professional practices reinforced history's embrace of the nation-State. By the 1890s, historians added a pedagogical and civic justification when they centered their claims for public support on the mission of teaching national citizenship. It was in the 1890s that" history definitely came into its own as the primary medium
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