Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 450 pages)
Edition:
2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780231511711
Series Statement:
Columbia studies in international and global history
Content:
A careful look at the processes of globalization over the past two hundred years reveals that the practices and ideologies of global interaction rose in conjunction with the global consolidation of a system of nation states and borders. The global standardization of migration control and identity documentation (e.g., passports and visas) is a concrete example of this globalization of borders, designed to both facilitate and limit movement.This book argues many of the standard principles and techniques of global migration and identity regulation were developed from 1880 to 1910 through the con
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Globalization of Identities; Part I: Borders in Transformation; 1. Consolidating Identities, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries; 2. Global Migration, 1840-1940; 3. Creating the Free Migrant; 4. Nationalization of Migration Control; Part II: Imagining Borders; 5. Experiments in Border Control, 1852-1887; 6. Civilization and Borders, 1885-1895; 7. The "Natal Formula" and the Decline of the Imperial Subject, 1888-1913; Part III: Enforcing Borders; 8. Experiments in Remote Control, 1897-1905
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9. The American Formula, 1905-191310. Files and Fraud; Part IV: Disseminating Borders; 11. Moralizing Regulation; 12. Borders Across the World, 1907-1939; Conclusion: A Melancholy Order; Primary Sources and Abbreviations Used in Notes; Notes; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 978231140768
Additional Edition:
ISBN 978231140775
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe McKeown, Adam Melancholy order New York, NY [u.a.] : Columbia Univ. Press, 2008 ISBN 0231140762
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231140775
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231140768
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
Keywords:
Geschichte 1840-1940
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Geschichte 1840-1940
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Asien
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Migration
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Globalisierung
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Grenze
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