Identifying the English
Edward Higgs · 2011
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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 Revoluti.
Book details
- Year
- 2011
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Continuum International Pub.
- Editions
- 3
- Pages
- 297
- ISBN
- 9781441135605
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