License to Travel

A Cultural History of the Passport
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-520-37585-7
Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 217 mm, Gewicht: 364 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bixby, Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Bixby is Professor of English at Arizona State University. His books include Unaccompanied Traveler: The Writings of Kathleen M. Murphy.