The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State

ISBN-13: 9781108473903 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 280 str.

John C. Torpey

Opis

The definitive history of the passport and why it became so important for controlling movement in the modern world.

Spis treści

Preface to the second edition; Introduction; 1. Coming and going: on the state monopolization of the legitimate 'means of movement'; 2. 'Argus of the Patrie': the passport question in the French Revolution; 3. Sweeping out Augeas's stable: the nineteenth-century trend toward freedom of movement; 4. Toward the 'crustacean type of nation': the proliferation of identification documents from the late nineteenth century to the First World War; 5. From national to postnational? Passports and constraints on movement from the interwar to the postwar era; 6. 'Everything changed that day': passport regulations after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001; Conclusion: a typology of 'papers'; References; Index.