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License to travel : a cultural history of the passport / Patrick Bixby.

by Bixby, Patrick, author.

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Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

Passports -- History.

9780520375857 (hardcover) : c $34.95

0520375858 (hardcover)

xiii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Introduction : "The most precious book I possess" -- A pre-history of the passport as we know it -- The advent of the passport as we know it -- A history of the passport as we know it -- Epilogue : "Good passports bad passports".

"Departing for a new life far away; fleeing from the dangers, the restrictions, or just the mundanity of familiar surroundings; enduring unwanted scrutiny in the backrooms of officialdom: some of the most dramatic scenes of a life story involve a passport. By examining the travel documents of artists, intellectuals, ancient messengers, and modern migrants, License to Travel tells how these seemingly humble documents also implicate us--our emotions and imaginings--in some of the most sweeping transformations of human history: the emergence of the nation-state, of international relations, of government surveillance, of refugee crises, and of our global interconnectedness"--

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