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Summary: Since this book was first published, in 1990, the practice, academic study and teaching of citizenship have burgeoned to a remarkable degree. These developments have sustained the book's usefulness, though it went out of print in 1995. The tenth anniversary of its original publication has therefore seemed an appropriate time to produce a second edition - and in the on-line format which looks forward to the style of publication and study in our increasingly electronic world.
I have taken the occasion of a new edition as an opportunity to make some detailed amendments to the original text, to present the references much more conveniently as footnotes, to add a bibliography, and to survey, in an Epilogue chapter, the developments that have occurred in this topic since the initial manuscript was finished in March 1989. Since the work was completed in the autumn of 2000, the last year of the twentieth century, the present tense has been retained in references to it.
It is pleasing to record my gratitude to two friends for their help: to Bernard Crick for his penetratingly helpful criticism of the draft Epilogue, and to Geoff Berridge for introducing me to the mysteries of e-books and persuading Simon Kear of Allandale Online Publishing, whom I also thank, to take on the burdensome task of publishing this edition of the book. As always, but by no means to be taken for granted, is the debt I owe to my wife for support in so many ways.
From the Publisher
The terms 'citizen' and 'citizenship' are in constant use throughout the world today: the concepts are central to everyday political discourse. But those who use the words 'citizenship', 'world citizenship' and 'education for citizenship' should be aware of the long history and great wealth of meaning which lie behind them. This ebook provides an authoritative and highly accessible analysis of the origins and development of citizenship and its application in the twenty first century and will be of benefit to academics, undergraduates and, because of the author's fluent writing style, the interested general reader alike. Divided into three parts, the author first examines the History of citzenship from its origins in Ancient Greece to the present day before moving onto an Analysis of what the term means to the individual and the state. The final section, Synthesis, provides cogent evidence that 'if the concept and institution of citizenship were suddenly erased from all human consciousness and behaviour, morality and justice would be acutely impaired'.
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Author biography: Derek Heater taught History at Secondary and Higher Education levels, having been Dean of the Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies at the then Brighton Polytechnic, England. He was the founder-Chairman of the Politics Association and the first editor of its journal, Teaching Politics. He has written widely on political ideas, citizenship, political education, and international politics. His many books include Contemporary Political Ideas, Essays on Political Education (with Bernard Crick), Citizenship: the Civic Ideal in World History, Politics and Education, National Self-Determination, The Idea of European Unity, and the Theory of Nationhood. He has also revised and updated Evan Luard's The United Nations. |
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