State Power and Record-Keeping: the History of Individualized Surveillance in the United States, 1790-1935

This dissertation charts the emergence of individualized record-keeping in the United States by tracing the history of criminal identification records and the invention of statistically-based identification systems, which the state applied to the population in general. The dissertation ties the inve...

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Main Author: Sankar, Pamela L (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: 1992
In:Year: 1992
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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