License to Travel (eBook)

A Cultural History of the Passport

Patrick Bixby (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
248 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520976276 (ISBN)

Infos

This surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world.
 
In License to Travel, Patrick Bixby takes the reader on a captivating journey from pharaonic Egypt and Han-dynasty China to the passport controls and crowded refugee camps of today. Along the way, you will:
 

• Peruse the passports of artists and intellectuals, writers and musicians, ancient messengers and modern migrants. 
• See how these seemingly humble documents implicate us in larger narratives about identity, mobility, citizenship, and state authority.
• Encounter intimate stories of vulnerability and desire along with vivid examples drawn from world cinema, literature, art, philosophy, and politics.
• Witness the authority that travel documents exercise over our movements and our emotions as we circulate around the globe.

 
With unexpected discoveries at every turn, License to Travel exposes the passport as both an instrument of personal freedom and a tool of government surveillance powerful enough to define our very humanity.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: "The Most Precious Book I Possess"

Part One: A Prehistory of the Passport as We Know It
1 • Ancient Bodies, Ancient Citizens
2 • Great Sovereigns, Grand Tourists
3 • Modern Bodies, Modern Citizens 

Part Two: The Advent of the Passport as We Know It
4 • Modernists and Militants

Part Three: The Passport as We Know It
5 • Expelled and Stateless
6 • Migrants and Marxists
7 • Alien and Indigenous 

Epilogue: Good Passports Bad Passports

Notes
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.10.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: abroad • Adventure • Ai Weiwei • Citizenship • Continent • Country • Cultural History • Culture • Elon Musk • Explore • Frederick Douglass • Gertrude Stein • Global Studies • Hannah Arendt • Identity • Langston Hughes • Marc Chagall • Mobility • new places • Paul Robeson • Slavoj Žižek • State • Sun Ra • Tourist • Travel • Visit • Willa Cather
• ISBN-13: 9780520976276 / 9780520976276