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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Torpey, John, 1959- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in law and society.

Cambridge studies in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Passports--United States.

Passports.

Freedom of movement--United States.

Freedom of movement.

Passports--Europe, Western.

Freedom of movement--Europe, Western.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 211 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-202) and index.

ISBN:

9780511825262

0511825269

9780511520990

0511520999

Publisher Number:

2027/heb32181 hdl