Links, Laws & Books on Passport History

German Laws & Regulations

BOOKS

  • Excellencies – The Württemberg Embassy in Berlin 1803-1937.A great source with biographies of all 23 ambassadors.
  • The American passport: its history and a digest of laws, rulings, and regulations governing its issuance by the Department of State, United States,  Gaillard Hunt, 1898
  • The United States passport: past, present, future United States. Dept. of State. Passport Office, 1976
  • The Passport in America: The History of a Document, Craig Robertson, 2010
  • Papers, please!: Identity Documents, Permits and Authorizations of the Third Reich, Ray Cowdery, 1996
  • Paspoort. Een parade van Nederlandse reisdocumenten, Tom van Beek, 1995
  • Der Passexpedient: Geschichte der Reisepässe und Ausweisdokumente – vom Mittelalter bis zum Personalausweis im Scheckkartenformat, Andreas Reisen, 2012
  • Documenting Individual Identity: The Development of State Practices in the Modern World, Jane Caplan, John C. Torpey, 2001
  • Every Assistance & Protection: A History of the Australian Passport, Jane Doulman, David Lee, 2008
  • Let Pass Or Die – Passport History (eBook), 440 pages/220 pictures, Tom Topol, 2022
  • The Soviet Passport

Bertelsmann, W., Das Passwesen: Eine Völkerrechtliche Studie (Strassburg, 1914).
Bigo, D., & E. Guild (eds), Controlling Frontiers: Free Movement Into and Within Europe (Aldershot, 2005)

Broeders, D., ‘The New Digital Borders of Europe: EU Databases and the Surveillance of Irregular Migrants’, International Sociology 22 (2007), pp. 71-92.

Dowty, A., Closed Borders: The Contemporary Assault on Freedom of Movement (New Haven, 1997). Links Laws Books Passport

Dummett, A. & A. Nicol, Subjects, Citizens, Aliens, and Others: Nationality and Immigration Law (London, 1990).

Ehrlich, T., ‘Passports’, Stanford Law Review 19 (1966), pp. 129-49.

Erler, A., ‘Pass’, in idem et al (eds), Handwörterbuch zur Deutschen Rechtsgeschichte Vol. 3 (Berlin, 1984), pp. 1527-9.

Fahrmeir, A., Citizens, and Aliens: Foreigners and the Law in Britain and the German States, 1789-1870 (New York, 2000).

— et al (eds), Migration Control in the North Atlantic World: The Evolution of State Practices in Europe and the US from the French Revolution to the Inter-War Period (New York, 2003).

Fitzgerald, K., The Face of the Nation: Immigration, the State, and the National Identity (Stanford, 1996). Links Laws Books Passport

Garcelon, M., ‘Colonizing the Subject: The Genealogy and Legacy of the Soviet Internal Passport’, in J. Caplan & J. Torpey (eds), Documenting Individual Identity: The Development of State Practices in the Modern World (Princeton & Oxford, 2001), pp. 83-100.

Geselle, A., ‘Bewegung und ihre Kontrolle in Lombardo-Venetien’, in W. Heindl & E. Saurer (eds), Grenze und Staat: Passwesen, Staatsbürgerschaft, Heimatrecht und Fremdengesetzgebung in der österreichischen Monarchie, 1750-1867 (Vienna, 2000).

—, ‘Domenica Saba Takes to the Road: Origins and Development of a Modern Passport System in Lombardy-Veneto’, in J. Caplan & J. Torpey (eds), Documenting Individual Identity: The Development of State Practices in the Modern World (Princeton & Oxford, 2001), pp. 199-217.

Hartoy, M. d’, Histoire du Passeport Français: Depuis l’antiquité jusqu’à Nos Jours (Paris, 1937). Links Laws Books Passport

Heindl, W. & E. Saurer (eds), Grenze und Staat: Passwesen, Staatsbürgerschaft, Heimatrecht und Fremdengesetzgebung in der österreichischen Monarchie, 1750-1867 (Vienna, 2000).

Kessler, G., ‘The Passport System and State Control over Population Flows in the Soviet Union, 1932-1940′, Cahiers du Monde Russe 42 (2001), pp. 477-504.

Komlosy, A., ‘Ein Land – viele Grenzen: Waren und Reiseverkehr zwischen den österreichischen und böhmischen Ländern (1740-1918)’, in idem et al (eds), Kulturen an der Grenze: Waldviertel, Weinviertel, Südböhmen, Südmähren (Vienna, 1995), pp. 59-72.

Lloyd, M., The Passport: The History of Man’s Most Travelled Document (Stroud, 2003).

—, ‘The Great War and the End of Free Migration in Western Europe and the United States: Explanations and Refutations’, in A. Böcker et al (eds), Regulation of Migration: International Experiences (Amsterdam, 1998), pp. 45-72. Links Laws Books Passport

—, ‘A Many-Headed Monster: The Evolution of the Passport System in the Netherlands and Germany in the Nineteenth Century, in J. Caplan & J. Torpey (eds), Documenting Individual Identity: The Development of State Practices in the Modern World (Princeton & Oxford, 2001), pp. 101-20.

Manley, R., ‘The Perils of Displacement: The Soviet Evacuee between Refugee and Deportee’, Contemporary European History 16 (2007), pp. 495-509.

—, ‘The Declining Significance of Traditional Borders (and the Appearance of New Borders) in an Age of High Technology’, in P. Droege (ed.), Intelligent Environments: Spatial Aspects of the Information Revolution (Oxford, 1997).

Matthews, M., The Passport Society: Controlling Movement in Russia and the USSR (Boulder, San Francisco & Oxford, 1993).

McKeown, A., ‘Ritualisation of Regulation: Enforcement of Chinese Exclusion 1898-1943′, American Historical Review [Forthcoming].

—, Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalisation of Borders 1834-1937 [Forthcoming].

— , ‘Le Système des Passeports à L ‘époque Stalinienne: De la Purge des Grandes Villes au Morcellement du Territoire, 1932-1953′, Revue d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine 50 (2003), pp. 145-69. Links Laws Books Passport

Moon, D., ‘Peasant Migration, the Abolition of Serfdom and the Internal Passport System in the Russian Empire, c.1800-1914′, in D. Eltis (ed.), Coerced and Free Migration: Global Perspectives (Stanford, 2002), pp. 324-57.

Noiriel, G., ‘Surveiller les déplacements ou identifier les personnes? Contributions à l’histoire du passport en France de la Ire à la IIIe république’, Genèses: Sciences Sociales et Histoire 30 (1998), pp. 77-100.

— , ‘The Identification of the Citizen: The Birth of Republican Civil Status in France’, in J. Caplan & J. Torpey (eds), Documenting Individual Identity: The Development of State Practices in the Modern World (Princeton & Oxford, 2001), pp. 28-48.

Nordman, D., ‘Sauf-conduits et Passeports, en France, à la Renaissance’, in J. Ceard & J-C. Margolin (eds), Voyager à la Renaissance (Paris, 1987), pp. 145-158.

O’Byrne, D. J., ‘On Passports and Border Controls’, Annals of Tourism Research 28 (2001), pp. 399-416.

Pallot, J. & D. J. B. Shaw, Landscape and Settlement in Romanov Russia, 1613-1917 (Oxford, 1990).

Robertson, C., ‘Mechanisms of Exclusion: Historicizing the Archive and the Passport’, in A. Burton (ed.), Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions and the Writing of History (Durham, 2005).

—, ‘A Ritual of Verification? The Nation, the State, and the Passport’, in J. Packer & C. Robertson (eds), Thinking With James Carey: Essays on Communications, Transportation, and History (New York, 2006).

—, ‘A Documentary Regime of Verification: The Emergence of the US Passport and the Archival Problematization of Identity’, Cultural Studies (2008), pp. 1-26.

Salter, M., Rights of Passage: The Passport in International Relations (Boulder, 2003).

—, ‘The Global Visa Regime and the Political Technologies of the International Self: Borders, Bodies, Biopolitics’, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 31 (2006), pp. 167-89.

Scheffler, T., ‘Der administrative Blick: Ueberden Gebrauch des Passes in der Auslaenderberhoerde’, in S. Hirschhauer and K. Anman (eds), Die Befremdung der eigenen Kultur: Zur ethnographischen Herausforderung soziologischer Empirie (Frankfurt am Main, 1997), pp. 168-97.

Shearer, D., ‘Elements Near and Alien: Passportization, Policy, and Identity in the Stalinist State 1932-1952′, Journal of Modern History 76 (2004), pp. 835-81.

Singha, R., ‘Settle, Mobilise and Verify Identification Practices in Colonial India’, Studies in History 16 (2000), pp. 151-98.

—, ‘Passport, Ticket, and India Rubber-Stamp: The Problem of the Pauper Pilgrim in Colonial India ca. 1882-1925′, in H. Fischer-Tine and A. Tambe (eds), Spaces of Disorder: The Limits of British Colonial Control in South Asia and the Indian Ocean (London & New York, 2008).

Snell, K. D. M., ‘Pauper Settlement and the Right to Relief in England and Wales’, Continuity & Change 6 (1991), pp. 375-415.

Société des Nations, Régime des Passeports (Geneva, 1938).

Thornberry, C., Going Abroad: A Report on Passports (Chichester & London, 1974).

Torpey, J., ‘Revolutions and Freedom of Movement: An Analysis of Passport Controls in the French, Russian and Chinese Revolutions’, Theory & Society 26 (1997), pp. 837-68. Links Laws Books Passport

—, ‘Coming and Going: On the State Monopolization of the Legitimate ‘Means of Movement”, Sociological Theory 16 (1998), pp. 239-59.

—, The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State (Cambridge, 2000).

Turack, D. C., The Passport in International Law (Lexington, 1972).

Valloton, P., Le Passeport (Lausanne, 1923).