A world of hardening borders

Abstract

In his memoir, “The World of Yesterday,” the Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig reminisced about the freedoms that he had enjoyed as a young man before World War I. “Before 1914, the earth had belonged to all,” Zweig wrote. “It always gives me pleasure to astonish the young by telling them that before 1914 I traveled from Europe to India and to America without a passport and without ever having seen one.”