Research Catalog

Title

Registration and recognition : documenting the person in world history / edited by Keith Breckenridge and Simon Szreter.

Publication

Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Breckenridge, Keith.
• Szreter, Simon.
• British Academy.

Description

xx, 532 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 182

Uniform Title

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 182.

Subjects

• Recording and registration > History
• Census
• Registers of births, etc > History

Note

• Proceedings of a workshop held September 7-10, 2010, in St John's College, Cambridge.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 13-2253

ISBN

• 9780197265314 (hbk.)
• 0197265316 (hbk.)

OCLC

805011096

Title

Registration and recognition : documenting the person in world history / edited by Keith Breckenridge and Simon Szreter.

Imprint

Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2012.

Series

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 182

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 182.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Breckenridge, Keith.

Szreter, Simon.

British Academy.

Research Call Number

JFE 13-2253