The invention of the passport : surveillance, citizenship and the state /
Torpey, John 1959-
The invention of the passport : surveillance, citizenship and the state / John C. Torpey. - Second edition. - xix, 255 pages ; 23 cm. - Cambridge studies in law and society . - Cambridge studies in law and society .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-246) and index.
Coming and going : on the state monopolization of the legitimate "means of movement" -- "Argus of the Patrie" : the passport question in the French Revolution -- Sweeping out Augeas's Stable : the nineteenth-century trend toward Freedom of Movement -- Toward the "Crustacean type of nation" : the proliferation of identification documents from the late nineteenth century to the First World War -- From national to post-national? Passports and constraints on movement from the interwar to the Postwar Era -- "Everything changed that day" : passport regulations after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
This book presents the definitive history of the passport and why it became so important for controlling movement in the modern world. It explores the history of passport laws, the parliamentary debates about those laws, and the social responses to their implementation.
9781108462945 (paperback) 1108462944 (paperback)
2018017263
Passports--United States.
Pasaportes --Estados Unidos
Freedom of movement--United States.
Libertad de movimiento --Estados Unidos
Passports--Europe, Western.
Freedom of movement--Europe, Western.
K 3273 / T686i 2018
323.6/70973
The invention of the passport : surveillance, citizenship and the state / John C. Torpey. - Second edition. - xix, 255 pages ; 23 cm. - Cambridge studies in law and society . - Cambridge studies in law and society .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-246) and index.
Coming and going : on the state monopolization of the legitimate "means of movement" -- "Argus of the Patrie" : the passport question in the French Revolution -- Sweeping out Augeas's Stable : the nineteenth-century trend toward Freedom of Movement -- Toward the "Crustacean type of nation" : the proliferation of identification documents from the late nineteenth century to the First World War -- From national to post-national? Passports and constraints on movement from the interwar to the Postwar Era -- "Everything changed that day" : passport regulations after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
This book presents the definitive history of the passport and why it became so important for controlling movement in the modern world. It explores the history of passport laws, the parliamentary debates about those laws, and the social responses to their implementation.
9781108462945 (paperback) 1108462944 (paperback)
2018017263
Passports--United States.
Pasaportes --Estados Unidos
Freedom of movement--United States.
Libertad de movimiento --Estados Unidos
Passports--Europe, Western.
Freedom of movement--Europe, Western.
K 3273 / T686i 2018
323.6/70973