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Zusatztext ... this is an engaging, accessible and stimulating overview of personal identification between 1500 and the present day. Informationen zum Autor Edward Higgs is Professor of History at the University of Essex, UK. He was a senior research fellow at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine of the University of Oxford, 1993-1996, and a lecturer at the University of Exeter from 1996 to 2000. His early published work was on Victorian domestic service, although he has written widely on the history of censuses and surveys, civil registration, women's work, the impact of the digital revolution on archives, the information state, and the history of identification. Vorwort Techniques of identifying criminals, citizens, imposters and consumers from the Middle Ages to the present day. Zusammenfassung Techniques of identifying criminals, citizens, imposters and consumers from the Middle Ages to the present day. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction / 1: Three Rogues / 2: Early Modern England - a Face to Face Society? / 3: Identifying the Great and the Good / 4: Identifying the Poor 'Citizen' and the Deviant / 5: Identification in the First Industrial Nation 1750 - 1850 / 6: Towards the 'Dossier Society' 1850 - 1970 / 7: Citizens and Customers 1850 - 1970 / 8: The 'Digital Person' - Identifying the Consumer 1970 to the Present / 9: The Digital Database State 1970 to 2010 / 10: Conclusions.
