{"product_id":"license-to-travel-a-cultural-history-of-the-passport-paperback","title":"License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatrick Bixby\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eLicense to Travel\u003c\/i\u003e, Patrick Bixby takes the reader on a captivating journey from pharaonic Egypt and Han-dynasty China to the passport controls and crowded refugee camps of today. Along the way, you will: \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeruse the passports of artists and intellectuals, writers and musicians, ancient messengers and modern migrants. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSee how these seemingly humble documents implicate us in larger narratives about identity, mobility, citizenship, and state authority.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEncounter intimate stories of vulnerability and desire along with vivid examples drawn from world cinema, literature, art, philosophy, and politics.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWitness the authority that travel documents exercise over our movements and our emotions as we circulate around the globe.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With unexpected discoveries at every turn, \u003ci\u003eLicense to Travel\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the passport as both an instrument of personal freedom and a tool of government surveillance powerful enough to define our very humanity.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatrick Bixby is a gifted storyteller. \u003ci\u003eLicense to Travel \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a wide-ranging history of the passport, including a systematic survey of its invention, deployment, and literary repercussions, as well as a series of considerations on contemporary issues facing travel, globalization, and immigration. Bixby has gathered spectacular anecdotes that are not limited to British and American culture, but also engage with German, Russian, Chinese, and French examples, which are all very well chosen and discussed in depth.--Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This book makes a delightful, thorough, and sprightly contribution to the fields of cultural studies, mobility studies, and travel philosophy. By bringing together texts across different fields and by seizing the timeliness of the current upheaval of travel during the Covid-19 pandemic, Bixby's book makes for an innovative and informative read around the charged topics of citizenship, belonging, identity, and borders. Employing an easy-to-follow voice and an invitingly open, inquisitive style, \u003ci\u003eLicense to Travel\u003c\/i\u003e draws readers into the voyages, conundrums, and passages of an eclectic array of characters and contexts.\"--Christopher Schaberg, author of \u003ci\u003eGrounded: Perpetual Flight . . . and Then the Pandemic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Bixby offers us a luminous cross-cultural history of the passport, that precious object that stands at the intersection of the personal and the political. This is an important book for anyone interested in histories of mobility and the politics of border crossing from ancient times to the present.\"--Deepika Bahri, author of \u003ci\u003ePostcolonial Biology: Psyche and Flesh after Empire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick Bixby\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at Arizona State University. His books include \u003ci\u003eUnaccompanied Traveler: The Writings of Kathleen M. Murphy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 05, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759092662560,"sku":"9780520397897","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a4b08daf0023aef68ec0d5bb6adcc32e.webp?v=1780142318","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/license-to-travel-a-cultural-history-of-the-passport-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}