The surveillance, citizenship and the state Torpey, John (John Christopher) 1959- creator text bibliography enk 2018 Second edition. monographic eng

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xix, 255 pages ; 23 cm. This book presents the definitive history of the passport and why it became so important for controlling movement in the modern world. It explores the history of passport laws, the parliamentary debates about those laws, and the social responses to their implementation. Coming and going : on the state monopolization of the legitimate "means of movement" -- "Argus of the Patrie" : the passport question in the French Revolution -- Sweeping out Augeas's Stable : the nineteenth-century trend toward Freedom of Movement -- Toward the "Crustacean type of nation" : the proliferation of identification documents from the late nineteenth century to the First World War -- From national to post-national? Passports and constraints on movement from the interwar to the Postwar Era -- "Everything changed that day" : passport regulations after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. John C. Torpey. Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-246) and index. n-us--- ew----- Passports United States Pasaportes Estados Unidos Freedom of movement United States Libertad de movimiento Estados Unidos Passports Europe, Western Freedom of movement Europe, Western K 3273 T686i 2018 323.6/70973 9781108462945 (paperback) 1108462944 (paperback) 2018017263 DLC 180420 20250528110413.0 20461125 eng