[lbo-talk] RE: The Invention of the Passport

John K. Taber jktaber at tacni.net
Tue Jan 20 18:40:33 PST 2004


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> ***** Book Review
> The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the
> State by John Torpey (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000);
> 210 pages; $19.95.

I seem to remember B. Traven denouncing the passport in his early novel The Death Ship. He claimed it was invented after WW I, and that before then, one could travel freely among most Western countries.

Interesting.

-- John



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