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

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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22870

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Cambridge studies in law and society.

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Passports -- History.

Passports -- History -- Europe.

Nationality -- History.

Freedom of movement (International law)

Contents:

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 Augeas's stable : the nineteenth-century trend toward freedom of movement

4. Toward 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

Conclusion : a typology of papers.

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Includes index.

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0521634938

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xi, 211 pages ; 23 cm