Registration and recognition : documenting the person in world history

Bibliographische Detailangaben
Weitere Verfasser: Breckenridge, Keith (HerausgeberIn), Szreter, Simon 1957- (BerichterstatterIn), Workshop
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 2012
Ausgabe:1. ed.
Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel:Proceedings of the British Academy 182
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Proceedings of the British Academy
Schlagworte:Recording and registration Registers of births, etc Census Bevölkerung Meldewesen Geschichte Demographie Melderegister
Umfang:XX, 532 S.
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Editors' introduction: Recognition and registration : the infrastructure of personhood in world history Simon Szreter and Keith Breckenridge
  • Household registration, property rights, and social obligations in Imperial China : principles and practices Richard von Glahn
  • Registration of identities in early modern English parishes and amongst the English overseas Simon Szreter
  • Too much information? Too little coordination? : (civil) registation in nineteenth-century Germany Andreas Fahrmeir
  • Japan's civil registration systems before and after the Meiji restoration Osamu Saito and Masahiro Sato
  • Civil status and identification in nineteenth-century France : a matter of state control? Paul-André Rosental
  • Identity registration in the classical Mediterranean world Rebecca Flemming
  • Naming, identifying and authorizing movement in early modern Spain and Spanish America Tamar Herzog
  • Establishing and registering identity in the Dutch Republic Henk Looijesteijn and Marco H.D. van Leeuwen
  • The identity thieves of the Indian Ocean : forgery, fraud and the origins of South African immigration control, 1890s-1920s Andrew MacDonald
  • Parish baptism registers, vital registration and fixing identities in Uganda Shane Doyle
  • Identity registration in India during and after the Raj Ravindran Gopinath
  • Monitoring the abolition of the international slave trade : slave registration in the British Caribbean Stanley L. Engerman
  • Birth of the "secular" individual : medical and legal methods of identification in nineteenth-century Egypt Khaled Fahmy
  • No will to know : the rise and fall of African civil registration in twentieth-century South Africa Keith Breckenridge
  • Voting, welfare and registration : the strange fate of the État-Civil in French Africa, 1945-1960 Frederick Cooper
  • Uruguay's child rights approach to health : what role for civil registration? Anne-Emanuelle Birn
  • Birth registration and the promotion of children's rights in the interwar years : the Save the Children International Union's Conference on the African Child, and Herbert Hoover's American Child Health Association Dominique Marshall
  • Children, citizenship and child support : the Child Support Grant in post-apartheid South Africa Francie Lund
  • What comes after the social? Historicizing the future of social assistance and identity registration in Africa James Ferguson.