How did governments get the power to limit people's movements in the first place? A historian explains.
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David Brundage is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor of History, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Maitre de Conférences, Université Paris Descartes – USPC
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Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
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Post-Doctoral Researcher, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin
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Lecturer in International Political Economy, City, University of London
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Professor, History and African-American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University's Center for African Studies, David M. Rubenstein Fellow at the Global Economy and Development and Africa Growth Initiative at the Brookings Institution, and Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, Stanford University
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Presidential Professor of Sociology and History, City University of New York
