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"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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License to Travel, Patrick Bixby
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- Título
- License to Travel
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Patrick Bixby
- Editorial
- University of California Press
- Publicado en
- 2023
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 248
- ISBN10
- 0520397894
- ISBN13
- 9780520397897
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Ciencias sociales, Tema histórico, Libros de texto, Ciencias políticas & Política, Libros de texto universitarios
- Calificación
- 3,25 de 5
- Descripción
- "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"--