[Free pdf] Leman The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)
☆ John Torpey ☆
| #1312016 in Books | Cambridge University Press | 1999-11-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.72 x.51 x6.85l,.75 | File Name: 0521634938 | 224 pages |
||17 of 19 people found the following review helpful.| Papers please!|By Mark Howells|A very interesting and highly readable account of the development of our modern system of passports. Passports have not always been a requirement for crossing international boundaries. The invention and spread of the concept of a nation-state first in Europe and then around the globe has seen fluctuations in various governments' requi|From Library Journal|No abstract sociological text, this work is notable for its absence of jargon and its solid grounding in historical fact. Torpey (sociology, Univ. of California, Irvine) analyzes how increasingly powerful states wrested from private institu
This innovative book argues that documents such as passports, internal passports and related mechanisms have been crucial in making distinctions between citizens and noncitizens. It explains how the concept of citizenship has been used over the past 200 years to delineate rights and penalties regarding property, liberty, taxes and welfare. Focusing on the United States and Western Europe, it combines theory and empirical data in questioning how and why states have estab...
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society) | John Torpey. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
