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

By:

Torpey, John

Material type: Text

TextOriginal language: English Publication details: Cambridge [England] ;;New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000Description: xi, 211 p. 24 cmISBN:

0521632498 (hardback : alk. paper);0521634938 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

Passports.;Freedom of movement.;Passports.;Freedom of movement

DDC classification:

342/.082 TOI 2000

Summary: "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, Read more..

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-202) and index.

"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, Read more..

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