{"product_id":"license-to-travel-9780520397897","title":"License to Travel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eLicense to Travel\u003c\/i\u003e, Bixby explores the passport’s linguistic journey and much else. . . . An impressive survey.\" * Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\"A comprehensive, insightful history. . . . Bixby offers up a formidable survey of this everyday artifact and how it defines individuals and affords varying degrees of privilege and freedom, depending on one’s place of birth.\" * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e\"Neatly lays out the mighty power of the passport and the pains of passport inequality. . . . With \u003ci\u003eLicense to Travel\u003c\/i\u003e, Bixby also makes the argument that applying and carrying a passport is not just an administrative hoop that travelers must jump through: Having a passport gives us the freedom to travel—and the freedom to thrive.\" * AFAR Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\"Read this book and you’ll never again treat your passport so casually.\" * Geography Realm *\u003cbr\u003e\"Bixby offers a new cultural history of the passport, exploring its pre-history, emergence and its current status today. This beautifully written and accessible book will be a great introduction for people wanting to learn more about passports and their politics of inclusion and exclusion.\" * LSE Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"This readable narrative history will interest all who travel abroad as well as those denied the opportunity.\" * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003e\"Charmingly written. . . . An appealing, accessible, and enlightening choice of reading on this subject.\" * International Migration Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: \"The Most Precious Book I Possess\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part One: A Prehistory of the Passport as We Know It\u003cbr\u003e 1 • Ancient Bodies, Ancient Citizens\u003cbr\u003e 2 • Great Sovereigns, Grand Tourists\u003cbr\u003e 3 • Modern Bodies, Modern Citizens \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part Two: The Advent of the Passport as We Know It\u003cbr\u003e 4 • Modernists and Militants\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part Three: The Passport as We Know It\u003cbr\u003e 5 • Expelled and Stateless\u003cbr\u003e 6 • Migrants and Marxists\u003cbr\u003e 7 • Alien and Indigenous \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Good Passports Bad Passports\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402971914583,"sku":"9780520397897","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520397897.jpg?v=1730482002","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/license-to-travel-9780520397897","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}