Who Are You?: Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe by Groebner, Valentin
Who Are You?: Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe by Groebner, Valentin

Who Are You?: Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe

Who are you? And how can you prove it? How were individuals described and identified by people...
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Author: Valentin Groebner
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Who Are You?: Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe by Groebner, Valentin

Who Are You?: Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe

$72.96
Who Are You?: Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe by Groebner, Valentin

Who Are You?: Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe

$72.96
Author: Valentin Groebner
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Who are you? And how can you prove it? How were individuals described and identified by people who had never seen them before, in the centuries before photography and fingerprinting, in a world without centralized administrations, where names and addresses were constantly changing?

In Who Are You?, Valentin Groebner traces the early modern European history of identification practices and identity papers. The documents, seals, stamps, and signatures were -- and are -- powerful tools that created the double of a person in writ and bore the indelible signs of bureaucratic authenticity. Ultimately, as Groebner lucidly explains, they revealed as much about their makers' illustory fantasies as they did about their bearers' actual identity.

The bureaucratic desire to register and control the population created, from the sixteenth century onward, an intricate administrative system for tracking individual identities. Most important, the proof of one's identity was intimately linked and determined by the identification papers the authorities demanded and endlessly supplied. At the same time, these papers and practices gave birth to two uncanny doppelg ngers of administrative identity procedures: the spy who craftily forged official documents and passports, and the impostor who dissimulated and mimed any individual he so desired.

Through careful research and powerful narrative, Groebner recounts the complicated and bizarre stories of the many ways in which identities were stolen, created, and doubled. Groebner argues that identity papers cannot be interpreted literally as pure and simple documents. They are themselves pieces of history, histories of individuals and individuality, papers that both document and transform their owner's identity -- from Renaissance vagrants and gypsies to the illegal immigrants of today who remain "sans papiers," without papers.

Author: Valentin Groebner
Publisher: Zone Books
Published: 03/27/2007
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9781890951726
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author

Valentin Groebner is professor of medieval and Renaissance history at the University of Lucerne. He is the author of Liquid Assets, Dangerous Gifts and Who Are You? Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe.


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