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9781441182036

Identifying the English A History of Personal Identification 1500 to the Present

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    9781441182036

  • ISBN10:

    1441182039

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-12-08
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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Personal identification is very much a live political issue in Britain and this book looks at why this is the case, and why, paradoxically, the theft of identity has become ever more common as the means of identification have multiplied. Identifying the English looks not only at how criminals have been identified - branding, fingerprinting, DNA - but also at the identification of the individual with seals and signatures, of the citizen by means of passports and ID cards, and of the corpse. Beginning his history in the medieval period, Edward Higgs reveals how it was not the Industrial Revolution that brought the most radical changes in identification techniques, as many have assumed, but rather the changing nature of the State and commerce, and their relationship with citizens and customers. In the twentieth century the very different historical techniques have converged on the holding of information on databases, and increasingly on biometrics, and the multiplication of these external databases outside the control of individuals has continued to undermine personal identity security. >

Table of Contents

List of Illustrationsp. vii
Introductionp. 1
Three Roguesp. 17
Early Modern England - a Face-to-Face Society?p. 39
Identifying the Great and the Good in Early Modern Englandp. 49
Identifying the Poor 'Citizen' and the Deviant in Early Modern Englandp. 79
Identification in the First Industrial Nation, 1750-1850p. 97
Towards the 'Dossier Society': Identifying Deviants in England, 1850 to 1970p. 121
Towards the 'Dossier Society': Identifying Citizens and Customers in England, 1850 to 1970p. 143
Towards the 'Digital Person': Identifying the Consumer in England, 1970 to the Presentp. 171
Towards the 'Digital Person': Identification in the Digital Database State, 1970 to 2010p. 187
Conclusionp. 205
Notesp. 211
Bibliographyp. 251
Indexp. 275
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