Documenting individual identity : the development of state practices in the modern world
"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. The nineteen essays in this volume represent the collaborative effort of historians, sociologists, historians of science, political scientists, economists, and specialists in international relations. Together they cover a period from the emergence of systematic practices of written identification in early modern Europe through to the present day, and a geographic range that includes Europe, the Soviet Union, North and South America, and Africa. While the book is attuned to the nefarious possibilities of states' increasing capacity to identify individuals, it recognizes that these same techniques also certify citizens' eligibility for significant positive rights, such as welfare benefits and voting."--Publisher's information
Print Book, English, ©2001
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©2001
Kongress
viii, 415 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780691009117, 9780691009124, 0691009112, 0691009120
47142095
Describing the person, reading the signs in late medieval and Renaissance Europe : identity papers, vested figures, and the limits of identification, 1400-1600 / Valentin Groebner
The identification of the citizen : the birth of Republican civil status in France / Gérard Noiriel
"This or that particular person" : protocols of identification in nineteenth-century Europe / Jane Caplan
Making social groups, one person at a time : the identification of individuals by estate, religious confession, and ethnicity in late Imperial Russia / Charles Steinwedel
Colonizing the subject : the genealogy and legacy of the Soviet internal passport / Marc Garcelon
Modern horrors : British identity and identity cards / Jon Agar
Republican identity : Bertillonage as government technique / Martine Kaluszynski
The standardized gaze : the standardization of the search warrant in nineteenth-century Germany / Peter Becker
Anthropometry, the police expert, and the Deptford murders : the contested introduction of fingerprinting for the identification of criminals in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain / Anne M. Joseph
Fingerprinting and the Argentine plan for universal identification in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Kristin Ruggiero
Domenica Saba takes to the road : origins and development of a modern passport system in Lombardy-Veneto / Andrea Geselle
Governments and forgers : passports in nineteenth-century Europe / Andreas Fahrmeir
A many-headed monster : the evolution of the passport system in the Netherlands and Germany in the long nineteenth century / Leo Lucassen
The Great War and the birth of the modern passport system / John Torpey
DNA-typing : Galton's eugenic dream realized? / Pamela Sankar
Under my skin : from identification papers to body surveillance / David Lyon
Identity and anonymity : some conceptual distinctions and issues for research / Gary T. Marx
Identifying unauthorized foreign workers in the German labor market / Dita Vogel
Identity cards, ethnic self-perception, and genocide in Rwanda / Timothy Longman