3. "This or That Particular Person": Protocols of Identification in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Jane Coplan and John Torpey 1
5. PART ONE: CREATING APPARATUSES OF IDENTIFICATION
6. 1. Describing the Person, Reading the Signs in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Identity Papers, Vested Figures, and the Limits of Identification, 1400-1600 15
7. 2. The Identification of the Citizen: The Birth of Republican Civil Status in France 28
8. 3. "This or That Particular Person": Protocols of Identification in Nineteenth-Century Europe 49
9. 4. Making Social Groups, One Person at a Time: The Identification of Individuals by Estate, Religious Confession, and Ethnicity in Late Imperial Russia 67
10. 5. Colonizing the Subject: The Genealogy and Legacy of the Soviet Internal Passport 83
11. 6. Modern Horrors: British Identity and Identity Cards 101
12. PART TWO: IDENTIFICATION PRACTICES AND POLICING
13. 7. Republican Identity: Bertillonage as Government Technique 123
14. 8. The Standardized Gaze: The Standardization of the Search Warrant in Nineteenth-Century Germany 139
15. 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 164
16. 10. Fingerprinting and the Argentine Plan for Universal Identification in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 184
17. PART THREE: IDENTIFICATION AND CONTROL OF MOVEMENT
18. 11. Domenica Saba Takes to the Road: Origins and Development of a Modern Passport System in Lombardy-Veneto 199
19. 12. Governments and Forgers: Passports in Nineteenth-Century Europe 218
20. 13. A Many-Headed Monster: The Evolution of the Passport System in the Netherlands and Germany in the Long Nineteenth Century 235
21. 14. The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Passport System 256
22. PART FOUR: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN IDENTIFICATION
23. 15. DNA-Typing: Galton's Eugenic Dream Realized? 273
24. 16. Under My Skin: From Identification Papers to Body Surveillance 291
25. 17. Identity and Anonymity: Some Conceptual Distinctions and Issues for Research 311
26. 18. Identifiying Unauthorized Foreign Workers in the German Labor Market 328
27. 19. Identity Cards, Ethnic Self-Perception, and Genocide in Rwanda 345
28. Bibliography 359
29. Notes on Contributors 397
30. Index 403