Geoff Eley is the Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor ofContemporary History, Professor of History and Chair, Department of GermanicLanguages and Literatures, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan. His books include Reshaping the German Right: Radical Nationalism and Political Change after Bismarck (1980; 1991), Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000 (2002), and A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society (2005). Jan Palmowski is Senior Lecturer at King's College, London. He is the author of Urban Liberalism in Imperial Germany: Frankfurt am Main, 1866-1914 (1999), and the Oxford Dictionary of Contemporary World History (1997; 2003).

"In thought-provoking and insightful essays, the scholars contributing to this volume present citizenship as the central arena in which Germans debated the meaning of their ideal community...They make a convincing case, and their substantial contributions to the history of modern Germany and international understanding of citizenship prove their point." —German Studies Review

Geoff Eley is the Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor ofContemporary History, Professor of History and Chair, Department of GermanicLanguages and Literatures, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan. His books include Reshaping the German Right: Radical Nationalism and Political Change after Bismarck (1980; 1991), Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000 (2002), and A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society (2005). Jan Palmowski is Senior Lecturer at King's College, London. He is the author of Urban Liberalism in Imperial Germany: Frankfurt am Main, 1866-1914 (1999), and the Oxford Dictionary of Contemporary World History (1997; 2003).

"In thought-provoking and insightful essays, the scholars contributing to this volume present citizenship as the central arena in which Germans debated the meaning of their ideal community...They make a convincing case, and their substantial contributions to the history of modern Germany and international understanding of citizenship prove their point." —German Studies Review

Geoff Eley is the Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor ofContemporary History, Professor of History and Chair, Department of GermanicLanguages and Literatures, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan. His books include Reshaping the German Right: Radical Nationalism and Political Change after Bismarck (1980; 1991), Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000 (2002), and A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society (2005). Jan Palmowski is Senior Lecturer at King's College, London. He is the author of Urban Liberalism in Imperial Germany: Frankfurt am Main, 1866-1914 (1999), and the Oxford Dictionary of Contemporary World History (1997; 2003).

"In thought-provoking and insightful essays, the scholars contributing to this volume present citizenship as the central arena in which Germans debated the meaning of their ideal community...They make a convincing case, and their substantial contributions to the history of modern Germany and international understanding of citizenship prove their point." —German Studies Review