Documenting Individual Identity
Subtitle: The Development of State Practices in the Modern World.
Contributors: Jane Caplan (Editor); John Torpey (Editor)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: December 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780691009124
Subjects: Political control & freedoms; Sociology, Social Studies; World history; Identification; History; History - General History; History: World; Status (Law); Modern - 20th Century; Civics & Citizenship; Emigration & Immigration; American History; European History; History / Modern / 20th Century; Postcolonial Studies; Sociology; World History / Comparative History; Passports
First sentence: WE ARE APT to describe the history of the premodern as a history of loss.