This book explores the relationship between citizenship and civism through a general survey of
European history. It begins with an exploration of the dynamics of citizenship and civism in
the formative Neolithic and classical societies followed by an exploration of the middle ages
renaissance reformation and the enlightenment. The latter half of the book focuses on the
rise of the modern nation-state following the French Revolution. The chapters spanning the
eighteenth nineteenth and twentieth centuries focus on the development of citizenship and
civism in Britain France Germany and Russia.
