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ABSTRACT The article contends that the significance attributed to the 1999 citizenship reform in Germany is closely linked to a particular reading of the history of German citizenship policies. This [...]

According to the prevalent view, German citizenship was acquired only by descent from German citizens from the early nineteenth century onwards. This article argues, however, that a complete reading of the available sources suggests that citizenship was linked to the place of permanent residence in post-1815 legislation, and that the regulation of citizenship was a state responsibility, not one of the powers of the Germanic Confederation. The central points of citizenship law remained unchanged by the 1848 revolution and the unification of German states in 1866 and 1871, so that the increasing emphasis on descent in the 1913 Citizenship Act reflected a new departure rather than a traditional German concept of nationality.

It is well known that British and German attitudes to imperial expansion were very different in the mid-nineteenth century. Except for a brief period around 1848, colonial issues attracted little [...]

Reform in Great Britain and Germany 1750-1850, edited by T.C.W. Blanning and Peter Wende. Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 100. New York, Oxford University Press for the British Academy, [...]

Victoria Konigin Viktoria und ihre Zeit. Edgar Feuchtwanger. Northeim-Sudheim: Muster-Schmidt, 2004. 177 pp. Euro14. '[T]he question about the relationship between person and structures is at the center of Feuchtwanger's biography […]