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Author McKeown, Adam, Ph.D.

Title Melancholy order : Asian migration and the globalization of borders / Adam M. McKeown.

Imprint New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  325.25 M199m 2008    ---  Available
Description xii, 450 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Columbia studies in international and global history
Columbia studies in international and global history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-433) and index.
Contents Consolidating identities, sixteenth to nineteenth centuries -- Global migration, 1840-1940 -- Creating the free migrant -- Nationalization of migration control -- Experiments in border control, 1852-1887 -- Civilization and borders, 1885-1895 -- The "natal formula" and the decline of the imperial subject, 1888-1913 -- Experiments in remote control, 1897-1905 -- The American formula, 1905-1913 -- Files and fraud -- Moralizing regulation -- Borders across the world, 1907-1939.
Subject Globalization -- Asia.
Boundaries -- Political aspects.
Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
Passports.
Asia -- Emigration and immigration.
ISBN 0231140762 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780231140768 (hardcover : alk. paper)
023151171X (e-book)
9780231511711 (e-book)
Standard No. NLGGC 316352357
AU@ 000043122960

 
    
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