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The invention of the passport : surveillance, citizenship and the state / John C. Torpey.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Cambridge studies in law and society | Cambridge studies in law and societyPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018Edition: Second editionDescription: xix, 255 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781108462945 (paperback)
  • 1108462944 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.6/70973
LOC classification:
  • K 3273 T686i 2018
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) K 3273 T686i 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000192837

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.

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