Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction /Bo Strath and Quentin Skinner --1.States and the freedom of citizens /Quentin Skinner --2.The concept of the state: the sovereignty of a fiction /David Runciman --3.Citizens and the state: retrospect and prospect /Gianfranco Poggi --4.Freedom, law, and the medieval state /Magnus Ryan --5.States, cities and citizens in the later Middle Ages /Almut Hofert --6.The states and its rivals in early-modern Europe /Martin Van Gelderen --7.The development of the idea of citizen's rights /Annabel S. Brett --8.Enlightenment's differences, today's identities /Judith A. Vega --9.Citizen and state under the French Revolution /Lucien Jaume --10.A state of contradictions: the post-colonial state in India /Sudipta Kaviraj --11.The state and its critics: is there a post-modern challenge? /Bo Strath --12.Citizenship and equality of the sexes: the French model in question /Michele Riot Sarcey --13.States, citizens, and the environment /Andrew Dobson.
- LCC: JC11
- Dewey Decimal: 320.1
- Language: eng
- Physical Description: viii, 235 p. ; 24 cm.
- Edition Info: (pb.)
- State, The -- History -- Congresses
- Citizenship -- History -- Congresses
- Medborgerliga fri- och rt?tigheter -- historia
- Staten -- historia
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