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The invention of the passport : surveillance, citizenship, and the state
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The invention of the passport : surveillance, citizenship, and the state / John Torpey.
ISBN
9780511520990 (ebook)
9780521632492 (hardback)
9780521634939 (paperback)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 211 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Summary
In order to distinguish between those who may and may not enter or leave, states everywhere have developed extensive systems of identification, central to which is the passport. This innovative book argues that documents such as passports, internal passports and related mechanisms have been crucial in making distinctions between citizens and non-citizens. It examines how the concept of citizenship has been used to delineate rights and penalties regarding property, liberty, taxes and welfare. It focuses on the US and Western Europe, moving from revolutionary France to the Napoleonic era, the American Civil War, the British industrial revolution, pre-World War I Italy, the reign of Germany's Third Reich and beyond. This innovative study combines theory and empirical data in questioning how and why states have established the exclusive right to authorize and regulate the movement of people.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 21, 2019
Series
Cambridge studies in law and society.
Contents
Coming and Going: On the State Monopolization of the Legitimate "Means of Movement"
Monopolizing the legitimate means of movement
Modern states: "penetrating" or "embracing"?
Getting a grip: institutionalizing the nation-state
The prevalence of passport controls in absolutist Europe
"Argus of the Patrie": The Passport Question in the French Revolution
The passport problem at the end of the Old Regime
The flight of the King and the revolutionary renewal of passport controls
The Constitution of 1791 and the elimination of passport controls
The debate over passport controls of early 1792
A detailed examination of the new passport law
Passports and freedom of movement under the Convention
Passport concerns of the Directory
Sweeping Out Augeas's Stable: The Nineteenth-Century Trend Toward Freedom of Movement
From the emancipation of the peasantry to the end of the Napoleonic era
Prussian backwardness? A comparative look at the situation in the United Kingdom
Freedom of movement and citizenship in early nineteenth-century Germany
Toward the relaxation of passport controls in the German lands
The decriminalization of travel in the North German Confederation
Broader significance of the 1867 law
Toward the "Crustacean Type of Nation": The Proliferation of Identification Documents From the Late Nineteenth Century to the First World War
Passport controls and state development in the United States
Paper walls: Passports and Chinese exclusion.
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