Documenting Individual Identity: The Development of State Practices in the Modern World, Part 63Jane Caplan, John Torpey This book addresses one of the least studied yet most pervasive aspects of modern life--the techniques and mechanisms by which official agencies certify individual identity. From passports and identity cards to labor registration and alien documentation, from fingerprinting to much-debated contemporary issues such as DNA-typing, body surveillance, and the catastrophic results of colonial-era identity documentation in postcolonial Rwanda, Documenting Individual Identity offers the most comprehensive historical overview of this fascinating topic ever published. |
Contents
Describing the Person Reading the Signs in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe Identity Papers Vested Figures and the Limits of Identification 14... | 15 |
The Identification of the Citizen The Birth of Republican Civil Status in France | 28 |
This or That Particular Person Protocols of Identification in NineteenthCentury Europe | 49 |
Making Social Groups One Person at a Time The Identification of Individuals by Estate Religious Confession and Ethnicity in Late Imperial Russia | 67 |
Colonizing the Subject The Genealogy and Legacy of the Soviet Internal Passport | 83 |
Modern Horrors British Identity and Identity Cards | 101 |
IDENTIFICATION PRACTICES AND POLICING | 121 |
Republican Identity Bertillonage as Government Technique | 123 |
Governments and Forgers Passports in NineteenthCentury Europe | 218 |
A ManyHeaded Monster The Evolution of the Passport System in the Netherlands and Germany in the Long Nineteenth Century | 235 |
The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Passport System | 256 |
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN IDENTIFICATION | 271 |
DNATyping Galtons Eugenic Dream Realized? | 273 |
Under My Skin From Identification Papers to Body Surveillance | 291 |
Identity and Anonymity Some Conceptual Distinctions and Issues for Research | 311 |
Identifying Unauthorized Foreign Workers in the German Labor Market | 328 |
The Standardized Gaze The Standardization of the Search Warrant in NineteenthCentury Germany | 139 |
Anthropometry the Police Expert and the Deptford Murders The Contested Introduction of Fingerprinting for the Identification of Criminals in Late ... | 164 |
Fingerprinting and the Argentine Plan for Universal Identification in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries | 184 |
IDENTIFICATION AND CONTROL OF MOVEMENT | 197 |
Domenica Saba Takes to the Road Origins and Development of a Modern Passport System in LombardyVeneto | 199 |
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Picturing the Self: Changing Views of the Subject in Visual Culture Gen Doy No preview available - 2005 |
Information Technology and Moral Philosophy Jeroen van den Hoven,John Weckert No preview available - 2008 |