The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State

Preface 1. Coming and going: on the state monopolization of the legitimate 'means of movement' 2. 'Argus of the Patrie': the passport question in the French Revolution 3. Sweeping out Augias' stable: the nineteenth-century conquest of freedom of movement 4. Towards the 'Crustacean Type of Nation': the proliferation of identification documents from the late nineteenth-century to the First World War 5. From national to postnational?: passports and constraints on movement from the Interwar to the Postwar era Epilogue: a typology of 'papers'.