The invention of the passport : surveillance, citizenship, and the state / / John Torpey [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Torpey John <1959->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 211 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 342/.082
• Soggetto topico: Passports - United States; Freedom of movement - United States; Passports - Europe, Western; Freedom of movement - Europe, Western
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-202) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Coming and Going: On the State Monopolization of the Legitimate "Means of Movement" -- Monopolizing the legitimate means of movement -- Modern states: "penetrating" or "embracing"? -- Getting a grip: institutionalizing the nation-state -- The prevalence of passport controls in absolutist Europe -- "Argus of the Patrie": The Passport Question in the French Revolution -- The passport problem at the end of the Old Regime -- The flight of the King and the revolutionary renewal of passport controls -- The Constitution of 1791 and the elimination of passport controls -- The debate over passport controls of early 1792 -- A detailed examination of the new passport law -- Passports and freedom of movement under the Convention -- Passport concerns of the Directory -- Sweeping Out Augeas's Stable: The Nineteenth-Century Trend Toward Freedom of Movement -- From the emancipation of the peasantry to the end of the Napoleonic era -- Prussian backwardness? A comparative look at the situation in the United Kingdom -- Freedom of movement and citizenship in early nineteenth-century Germany -- Toward the relaxation of passport controls in the German lands -- The decriminalization of travel in the North German Confederation -- Broader significance of the 1867 law -- Toward the "Crustacean Type of Nation": The Proliferation of Identification Documents From the Late Nineteenth Century to the First World War -- Passport controls and state development in the United States -- Paper walls: Passports and Chinese exclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Surveillance, citizenship, and the state
• Titolo autorizzato: The invention of the passport
• ISBN: 0-511-82526-9; 0-511-52099-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248272703316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Cambridge studies in law and society.