Search Results

This collection examines the subject of identification and surveillance from 16th C English parish registers to 21st C DNA databases. The contributors, who rang

The task of identifying the individual has given rise to a number of technical innovations, including fingerprint analysis and DNA profiling. A range of methods

This volume explores the mutually transformative relations between migrants and port cities. Throughout the ages of sail and steam, port cities served as nodes

This book brings together a diverse range of transnational contributors to offer one of the first comprehensive and global histories of state surveillance.

Much attention has been focused on how states produce knowledge about the people they govern; far less has been written about those aspects of society that stat