The invention of the passport : surveillance, citizenship and the state / John C. Torpey, Graduate Center, City University of New York.

This book presents the first detailed history of the modern 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. The author argues...

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Main Author: Torpey, John, 1959- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Cambridge studies in law and society.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108664271
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