Identification and Registration Practices in Transnational Perspective: People, Papers and Practices

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This collection examines the subject of identification and surveillance from 16th C English parish registers to 21st C DNA databases. The contributors, who range from historians to legal specialists, provide an insight into the historical development behind such issues as biometric identification, immigration control and personal data use.

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Jane Caplan, University of Oxford, UK Simon Cole, University of California, Irvine, USA Claudine Dardy, University of Paris 12 Val-de-Marne, France Vincent Denis, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie, University of the Western Cape, South Africa Mercedes García Ferrari, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina Melanie Griffiths, University of Oxford, UK Edward Higgs, University of Essex, UK Karl Jakob Krogness, Ritsumeikan University, Japan Emilio Mordini, Centre for Science, Society and Citizenship, Italy Massimiliano Pagani, University of Exeter, UK Pierre Piazza, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France Andrew P. Rebera, University of Sussex, UK Simon Szreter, University of Cambridge, UK Ian Watson, Bifröst University, Iceland

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