Description
Techniques of identifying criminals, citizens, imposters and consumers from the Middle Ages to the present day.
About the Author
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.
Reviews
Mentioned in the 'out now' section in The Times.
Edward Higgs's entertaining, broad-ranging and thought-provoking book looks at the ways and means of establishing personal identity in England from the late medieval period up to the present day... [this is] an intelligent and ambitious book which offers a refreshingly optimistic conclusion. -- History Magazine, Vol. 13, No.1
... [an] eye-opening book... well-researched, full of intriguing facts and compelling arguments, Identifying the English reveals how the supposedly great things about postmodern British democracy- conspicuous consumption, extemsive social welfare, free markets, the free movement of people- are all ultimately dependent on the identification and surveillance of individuals. -- The Literary Review
... this is an engaging, accessible and stimulating overview of personal identification between 1500 and the present day. -- Peter Kitson, University of Cambridge * Local Population Studies, No. 88, Spring 2012 *
Book Information
ISBN 9781441182036
Author Dr Edward Higgs
Format Hardback
Page Count 296
Imprint Continuum Publishing Corporation
Publisher Continuum Publishing Corporation
Weight(grams) 590g