Citizenship and Empire in Europe 200–1900
The Antonine Constitution after 1800 years
- 266 pages
- English
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About this book
In 212 CE, the emperor Caracalla extended citizenship to nearly all free-born residents of the Roman Empire. In doing so, he transformed not only his own, but the very ideal of empire and statehood in Europe. This volume first inquires into the contexts of Caracalla's act in his own day. Rome was an ancient empire: it had traditionally ruled over populations that were conceived and governed as distinct units, a practice that was both strategic and ideological. What were the practical and political effects of a universalizing ideology in this context? Was there a reorientation of private social and legal practice in response? And what politics of exclusion came to apply, now that citizenship no longer served to distinguish persons of higher and lower status? The volume subsequently traces the history of citizenship in universalizing ideologies and legal practice from late antiquity to the codification of law in Europe in the nineteenth century. Caracalla's act was then repeatedly cited as the ideal toward which sovereign polities should strive, be they states or empires. Citizenship and law were thereby made preeminent among the universalisms of European statecraft.
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Table of contents
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION: SOVEREIGNTY, TERRITORIALITY AND UNIVERSALISM IN THE AFTERMATH OF CARACALLA
- CHAPTER 1: READING THE CITIZENSHIP PAPYRUS (P.GISS. 40)
- CHAPTER 2: LOCAL LAW IN ASIA MINOR AFTER THE CONSTITUTIO ANTONINIANA
- CHAPTER 3: THE NOTION OF RES PUBLICA IN THE AGE OF CARACALLA
- CHAPTER 4: CHRISTIAN REFLECTIONS ON ROMAN CITIZENSHIP (200–430)
- CHAPTER 5: CITIZENSHIP, SUBJECTION, AND CIVIL LAW: JEAN BODIN ON ROMAN CITIZENSHIP AND THE THEORY OF CONSENSUAL SUBJECTION
- CHAPTER 6: RACIALIZATION WITHIN UNIVERSALIST SOCIETIES. IS IT POSSIBLE TO IDENTIFY VARIOUS HISTORICAL CASES OF THE SAME ANTINOMY?
- CHAPTER 7: ANCIEN RÉGIME IN THE TROPICS? A DEBATE CONCERNING THE POLITICAL MODEL OF THE PORTUGUESE COLONIAL EMPIRE
- CHAPTER 8: EXPANDING CITIZENSHIP? THE FRENCH EXPERIENCE SURROUNDING THE CODE NAPOLÉON
- CHAPTER 9: UNIVERSALISM, LEGAL PLURALISM AND CITIZENSHIP: PORTUGUESE IMPERIAL POLICIES ON CITIZENSHIP AND LAW (1820–1914)
- CHAPTER 10: TAINTED CITIZENSHIP AND IMPERIAL CONSTITUTIONS: THE CASE OF THE SPANISH CONSTITUTION OF 1812
- AFTERWORD: ROMAN CITIZENSHIP, EMPIRE, AND THE CHALLENGES OF SOVEREIGNTY
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX