Part 1 History: the origins - polis and cosmopolis, from Rome to Renaissance, the threshold of modern citizenship; consolidation of the modern state - the age of revolutions, the triumph of nationalism, nineteenth-century Liberalism and Socialism, the impact of political doctrines on education; the twentieth century - states with a liberal tradition, totalitarianism, new nations, world citizenship; historical legacies - the origins, consolidation of the modern state, the twentieth century, the perspective of history. Part 2 Analysis: the feeling of citizenship - citizenship as identity, the good citizen; the political citizen - the political citizen of the state, the political citizen of the world; the status of a citizen - civil and legal definitions, social status; barriers to a holistic concept, general difficulties, the debate in Britain. Part 3 Synthesis: multiple citizenship - the cube of citizenship, the geographical dimension, the five elements, education.