Identifying the English: A History of Personal Identification 1500 to the Present
Identifying the English: A History of Personal Identification 1500 to the Present
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识别英国人：1500 年至今个人识别的历史
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2011
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E. Higgs
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E. Higgs
在英国，个人身份识别在很大程度上是一个活生生的政治问题，本书探讨了为什么会出现这种情况，以及为什么自相矛盾的是，随着身份识别手段的增加，身份盗窃变得越来越普遍。识别英国人不仅要看罪犯是如何被识别的--烙印、指纹、DNA --还要看通过印章和签名来识别个人，通过护照和身份证来识别公民，以及尸体。从中世纪开始，爱德华·希格斯揭示了工业革命如何带来了识别技术的最根本变化，正如许多人所假设的那样，而是国家和商业的性质不断变化，以及它们与公民和客户的关系。在20世纪，历史上各种截然不同的技术都集中在数据库中保存信息上，并越来越多地集中在生物鉴别技术上，这些不受个人控制的外部数据库的增加继续破坏个人身份安全。
Personal identification is very much a live political issue in Britain and this book looks at why this is the case, and why, paradoxically, the theft of identity has become ever more common as the means of identification have multiplied. Identifying the English looks not only at how criminals have been identified - branding, fingerprinting, DNA - but also at the identification of the individual with seals and signatures, of the citizen by means of passports and ID cards, and of the corpse. Beginning his history in the medieval period, Edward Higgs reveals how it was not the Industrial Revolution that brought the most radical changes in identification techniques, as many have assumed, but rather the changing nature of the State and commerce, and their relationship with citizens and customers. In the twentieth century the very different historical techniques have converged on the holding of information on databases, and increasingly on biometrics, and the multiplication of these external databases outside the control of individuals has continued to undermine personal identity security.