Identifying with Nationality ISBN: 9780231542524 Platform/Publisher: De Gruyter / Columbia University Press Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Identifying with Nationality traces the advent of modern citizenship to multinational, transimperial settings such as turn-of-the-century colonial Alexandria, where ordinary people abandoned old identifiers and grasped nationality as the best means to access the protections promised by expanding states. The result was a system that continues to define and divide people through status, mobility, and residency.
Will Hanley is assistant professor of history at Florida State University.