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Identifying the English - A History of Personal Identification 1500 to the Present (Hardcover, New)
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Identifying the English - A History of Personal Identification 1500 to the Present (Hardcover, New)
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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.
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