Part I: The family of the nation. New contracts of kinship and citizenship, 1789-1793
"Duty to the patrie above all:" the terror
Part II: Toward a nation of families: transitions in the late 1790s. Fathers and foreigners
Gender and emigration reconsidered
Part III: The Napoleonic solution and its limits. Tethering Cain's wife: the Napoleonic civil code
Looking backward: the consequences of civil death
Looking forward: women and the application of citizenship law
Immigration, marriage, and citizenship in the Restoration
Conclusion: reversals and lasting contradictions.