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The invention of the passport : Surveillance, citizenship and the state

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Publication details: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000Description: 211p ixISBN:
  • 9780521634939
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 342.082000 TOR
Contents:
Contents Preface; 1. Coming and going: on the state monopolization of the legitimate 'means of movement'; 2. 'Argus of the Patrie': the passport question in the French Revolution; 3. Sweeping out Augias' stable: the nineteenth-century conquest of freedom of movement; 4. Towards the 'Crustacean Type of Nation': the proliferation of identification documents from the late nineteenth-century to the First World War; 5. From national to postnational?: passports and constraints on movement from the Interwar to the Postwar era; Epilogue: a typology of 'papers'.
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Contents
Preface;
1. Coming and going: on the state monopolization of the legitimate 'means of movement';
2. 'Argus of the Patrie': the passport question in the French Revolution;
3. Sweeping out Augias' stable: the nineteenth-century conquest of freedom of movement;
4. Towards the 'Crustacean Type of Nation': the proliferation of identification documents from the late nineteenth-century to the First World War;
5. From national to postnational?: passports and constraints on movement from the Interwar to the Postwar era;
Epilogue: a typology of 'papers'.