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

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

Mit Press

Valentin Groebner with Mark Kyburz (Translator), John Peck (Translator)

349 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history

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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 ...

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