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Invention of the Passport by John C. Torpey & Chris Arup & Martin Chanock
Surveillance, Citizenship and the State
This book examines the history of the passport and state control of population movement.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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| Author(s) : John C. Torpey & Martin Chanock | Format : Paperback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0521634938 | ISBN-13 : 9780521634939 |
| RRP : £20.99 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Series Title : Cambridge Studies in Law & Society
Country Publication : United Kingdom
Publication Date : 13/11/1999
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page Length : 223mm
Page Size : 229mm