Documenting individual identity. The development of state practices in the modern world.

From the "blurb" :
"This book adresses one of the least studied yet most pervasive aspects of modern life - the techniques and mechanisms by which official agencies certify individual identity. From passports and identity cards to labor registration and alien documenattion, from fingerprinting to much debated contemporary issues such as DNA-typing, body surveillance, and the catastrophic results of colonial-era identity documentation in postcolonial Rwanda. This book offers the most comprehensive historical overview of this fascinating topic ever published."
Table of Contents :
Introduction: Jane Caplan and John Torpey ;
PART ONE: CREATING APPARATUSES OF IDENTIFICATION :
1. Describing the Person, Reading the Signs in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Identity Papers, Veste Figures, and the Limits of Identification, 1400-1600 by Valentin Groebner ;
2. The Identification of the Citizen: The Birth of Republican Civil Status in France by Gerard Noiriel ;
3. "This or That Particular Person": Protocols of Identification in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Jane Caplan ;
4. Making Social Groups, One Person at a Time: The Identification of Individuals by Estate, Religious Confession, an Ethnicity in Late Imperial Russia by Charles Steinwedel ;
5. Colonizing the Subject: The Genealogy an Legacy of the Soviet Internal Passport by Marc Garcelon ;
6. Modern Horrors: British Identity and Identity Cards by Jon Agar ;
PART TWO: IDENTIFICATION RACTICES AND POLICING :
7. Republican Identity: Bertillonage as Government Technique by Martine Kaluszynski ;
8. The Standardize Gaze: The Standardization of the Search Warrant in Nineteenth-Century Germany by Peter Becker ;
9. Anthropometry, the Police Expert, an the Deptford Murders: The Contested Introduction of Fingerprinting for the Identification of Criminals in Late Victorian an Edwardian Britain by Anne M. Joseph ;
10. Fingerprinting an the Argentine lan for Universal Identification in the Late Nineteenth an Early Twentieth Centuries by Kristin Ruggiero ;
PART THREE: IDENTIFICATION AND CONTROL OF MOVEMENT :
11. Domenica Saba Takes to the Road: Origins an Development of a Modern Passport System in Lombardy-Veneto by Andrea Geselle ;
12. Governments and Forgers: Passports in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Andreas Fahrmeir ;
13. A Many-Headed Monster: The Evolution of the Passport System in the Netherlands an Germany in the Long Nineteenth Century by Leo Lucassen ;
14. The Great War an the Birth of the Modern Passport System by John Torpey ;
PART FOUR: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN IDENTIFICATION :
15. DNA-Typing: Galton's Eugenic Dream Realized? by Pamela Sankar ;
16. Under My Skin: From Identification Papers to Body Surveillance by David Lyon ;
17. Identity an Anonymity: Some Conceptual Distinctions and Issues for Research by Gary T. Marx ;
18. Identifiying Unauthorize Foreign Workers in the German Labor Market by Dita Vogel ;
19. Identity Cards, Ethnic Self-Perception, and Genocide in Rwanda by Timothy Longman ;
Bibliography ;
Notes on Contributors ;
Index.