Documenting Individual Identity
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Adoption
Albert Lebrun
Alphonse Bertillon
Anonymity
Anthropometry
Attempt
Bigamy
Biometrics
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Cesare Lombroso
Civil registry
Colonialism
Conscription
Crime
Decree
Divorce
Employment
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Eugenics
Fingerprint
Formality
Fraud
French nationality law
Hutu
Identity document
Illegal immigration
Illustration
Indication (medicine)
Internal colonialism
Internal passport
Laborer
Law enforcement
Legislation
Measurement
Modernity
Nationality
Necessity
New Laws
Pale of Settlement
Pass laws
Passport
Passportization
Personally identifiable information
Physiognomy
Police
Police officer
Police state
Politique
Poor relief
Prosecutor
Pseudonym
Publication
Recidivism
Recommendation (European Union)
Requirement
Residence
Rwanda
Sans-culottes
Social Security number
State formation
Sumptuary law
Superiority (short story)
Surname
Surveillance
Tax
Technology
The Other Hand
Theft
Travel document
Tutsi
Warfare
Work permit (Belgium)
Product details
- ISBN 9780691009124
- Weight: 595g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 09 Dec 2001
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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. Unprecedented in subject and scope, Documenting Individual Identity promises to shape a whole new field of research that crosses disciplinary boundaries and is of broad public and academic significance. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Valentin Groebner, Gerard Noiriel, Charles Steinwedel, Marc Garcelon, Jon Agar, Martine Kaluszynski, Peter Becker, Anne Joseph, Kristin Ruggiero, Andrea Geselle, Andreas Fahrmeier, Leo Lucassen, Pamela Sankar, David Lyon, Gary Marx, Dita Vogel, and Timothy Longman.
Jane Caplan is Marjorie Walter Goodhart Professor of European History at Bryn Mawr College. Her most recent publications include the collections Written on the Body (Princeton) and Nazism, Fascism, and the Working Class. John Torpey is Associate Professor of Sociology and European Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He is the author of The Invention of the Passport and Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent.
