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Title
The Passport: The History of Man's Most Travelled Document
ISBN
9780750929646
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Publisher
Hi-Story Press The Limited, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0750929642
ISBN-13
9780750929646
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2475000

Product Key Features

Book Title
Passport : the History of Man's Most Travelled Document
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Topic
Social History, General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, History
Author
Martin Lloyd
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
16.5 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in

Additional Product Features

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TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
323.6709
Synopsis
The passport is one of the most widespread documents in worldwide use and yet, paradoxically, it has no basis in law: one state cannot demand another to do something give access - simply by issuing a document. Yet, by insisting on the requirement of holding a passport the state has provided itself with a neat self-financing, data collection and surveillance system. This is the story of the passport, from earliest times to the present day. When the Roman Empire was spread across Europe, those wishing to travel could only do so with the authority of the king or emperor. The passport's power to facilitate passage was, then, embodied in it from the beginning. But it is also connected with territorial and population control by the State. Today, the machine readable passport enables swift checks against lists of names, enabling customs control to sift out undesirables, and the question of identity cards (used throughout continental Europe) is again an issue in British politics. Using individual stories of the use of false passports and secret passage, and revealing the mechanism of the passport system, this book provides an accessible history of this most widespread of documents., Have you ever wondered how a passport works and what happens when it doesn't? Well, in this well illustrated book this and many other questions are answered as the story of the passport is told for the first time.
LC Classification Number
JF801

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