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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Andreas Fahrmeir. Citizens and Aliens: Foreigners and the Law in Britain and the German States, 1789–1870. (Monographs in German History, number 5.) New York: Berghahn Books. 2000. Pp. xiii, 258. $69.95.

The growth of the historiography of immigration into Britain during the last two decades has meant that most of the major communities in the country have now received a significant amount of scholarly attention, particularly those who arrived after 1800. In contrast, while immigration and nationality policies after 1945 have received intense scrutiny, the question of law and the alien before 1900 hardly exists. We must therefore welcome Andreas Fahrmeir's pioneering study. It is not just a study of Britain but contrasts that country with the German states before 1871. In this sense, the book resembles the much praised work of Rogers Brubaker on citizenship in France and Germany. Unlike Brubaker, however, Fahrmeir examines a narrower time frame and comes to more tentative conclusions. Fahrmeir recognizes the differences between Britain and Germany but does not claim that British and German laws differed fundamentally. In fact, the most important contribution of Fahrmeir's work is precisely the fact that he has, in a very subtle, sober, and understated way, asked us to rethink the importance of nationality, citizenship, and immigration control in early nineteenth-century Europe. . . .

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