The invention of the passport : surveillance, citizenship, and the state / John Torpey.
"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, lib...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in law and society.
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| Online Access: | ACLS Humanities E-Book Cambridge Books on Core Full-text ACLS Humanities E-Book (Restricted to University of Ottawa) Sample text |
| 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, the American Civil War, the British industrial revolution, pre-World War I Italy, the reign of Germany's Third Reich and beyond. This original 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."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 211 pages). |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521634938 9780521634939 0511520999 9780511520990 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511520990 |