License to travel a cultural history of the passport
"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 artist...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2022]
|
| Subjects: | |
| Tags: |
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
MARC
| LEADER | 00000cam a2200000 i 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | on1302988014 | ||
| 003 | OCoLC | ||
| 005 | 20230203121800.0 | ||
| 008 | 220110t20222022caua b 001 0 eng | ||
| 010 | |a 2022000984 | ||
| 015 | |a GBC2E7833 |2 bnb | ||
| 016 | 7 | |a 020721937 |2 Uk | |
| 019 | |a 1302738779 |a 1302953810 | ||
| 020 | |a 9780520375857 |q hardcover | ||
| 020 | |a 0520375858 |q hardcover | ||
| 020 | |z 9780520976276 |q electronic book | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)1302988014 |z (OCoLC)1302738779 |z (OCoLC)1302953810 | ||
| 040 | |a CU-S/DLC |b eng |e rda |c DLC |d OCLCF |d UKMGB |d YDX |d JQM |d XFF |d PCB | ||
| 042 | |a pcc | ||
| 050 | 0 | 0 | |a K3273 |b .B59 2022 |
| 082 | 0 | 0 | |a 342.08/2 |2 23/eng/20220531 |
| 100 | 1 | |a Bixby, Patrick, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a License to travel : |b a cultural history of the passport / |c Patrick Bixby. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Oakland, California : |b University of California Press, |c [2022] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã2022 | |
| 300 | |a xiii, 230 pages : |b illustrations (black and white) ; |c 22 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction : "The most precious book I possess" -- A pre-history of the passport as we know it. Ancient bodies, ancient citizens ; Great sovereigns, grand tourists ; Modern bodies, modern citizens -- The advent of the passport as we know it. Modernists and militants -- The passport as we know it. Expelled and stateless ; Migrants and Marxists ; Alien and indigenous -- Epilogue : Good passports bad passports. | |
| 520 | |a "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"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Passports |x History. | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Online version: |a Bixby, Patrick. |t License to travel |d Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022] |z 9780520976276 |w (DLC) 2022000985 |
| 994 | |a C0 |b PCB | ||
| 949 | |a schlow |b SANON |c 342.082 BIX |d i |e 39635104429772 |f 740509 |g ddc |j 02/01/2023 | ||
| 999 | |a 476920 | ||
