Documenting Individual Identity: The Development of State Practices in the Modern World 9780691009124, 0691009120

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Documenting Individual Identity: The Development of State Practices in the Modern World
 9780691009124, 0691009120

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Jane Caplan and John Torpey
Part I: Creating Apparatuses of Identification
1. Describing the Person, Reading the Signs in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Identity Papers, Vested Figures, and the Limits of Identification, 1400-1600
2. The Identification of the Citizen: The Birth of Republican Civil Status in France
3. "This or That Particular Person": Protocols of Identification in Nineteenth-Century Europe
4. Making Social Groups, One Person at a Time: The Identification of Individuals by Estate, Religious Confession, and Ethnicity in Late Imperial Russia
5. Colonizing the Subject: The Genealogy and Legacy of the Soviet Internal Passport
6. Modern Horrors: British Identity and Identity Cards
Part II: Identification Practices and Policing
7. Republican Identity: Bertillonage as Government Technique
8. The Standardized Gaze: The Standardization of the Search Warrant in Nineteenth-Century Germany
9. Anthropometry, the Police Expert, and the Deptford Murders:The Contested Introduction of Fingerprinting for the Identification of Criminals in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain
10. Fingerprinting and the Argentine Plan for Universal Identification in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Part III: Identification and Control of Movement
11. Domenica Saba Takes to the Road: Origins and Development of a Modern Passport System in Lombardy-Veneto
12. Governments and Forgers: Passports in Nineteenth-Century Europe
13. A Many-Headed Monster: The Evolution of the Passport System in the Netherlands and Germany in the Long Nineteenth Century
14. The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Passport System
Part IV: Contemporary Issues in Identification
15. DNA-Typing: Galton's Eugenic Dream Realized?
16. Under My Skin: From Identification Papers to Body Surveillance
17. Identity and Anonymity: Some Conceptual Distinctions and Issues for Research
18. Identifiying Unauthorized Foreign Workers in the German Labor Market
19. Identity Cards, Ethnic Self-Perception, and Genocide in Rwanda
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

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