License to travel: a cultural history of the passport

Introduction : "The most precious book I possess"

A pre-history of the passport as we know it. Ancient bodies, ancient citizens ; Great sovereigns, grand tourists ; Modern bodies, modern citizens

The advent of the passport as we know it. Modernists and militants

The passport as we know it. Expelled and stateless ; Migrants and Marxists ; Alien and indigenous

Epilogue : Good passports bad passports.