The Citizen : past and present /
edited by Andrew Brown and John Griffiths.
- 303 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Twenty-first-century citizenship, critical, global, active / Emily Beausoleil -- Citizens & serpents in classical Athens / Daniel Ogden -- The people & the state in early Rome / James H. Richardson -- Medieval citizenship, Bruges in the later Middle Ages / Andrew Brown -- Jews & Christians as second-class citizens in Islamic Egypt / Christopher J. van der Krogt -- Citizenship, community & disease in an early modern city / Karen Jillings -- Personal, local & enduring, masculine citizenship in First World War Britain / David Littlewood -- Sport & citizenship in New Zealand / Geoff Watson -- The formation of the "good citizen" using history to build a future in mid-twentieth-century New Zealand / Rachael Bell -- All the rights & privileges of British subjects, Maori & citizenship, taking the long view / Michael Belgrave -- From "citizens" to "dilettantes' & back again? the workers' Educational Association & its students since 1945 / John Griffiths.
"In an era where tyranny and the threats to democracy are on the rise, and where, in the Western world, the will of the people has lead us to Brexit and Donald Trump, the place of the citizen has never been more important. The meaning of modern 'citizenship', whether defined in a legal, political or social sense, is varied, problematic and contested; and it has been shaped inescapably by the legacy of the past, within New Zealand and beyond. Ranging from ancient Greece to New Zealand today, this collection of essays asks: Who is The Citizen? What are his rights? And what are her duties?" -- Cover.