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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Breckenridge, Keith, editor.

Szreter, Simon, editor.

UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 182.

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 182

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Recording and registration--History.

Recording and registration.

Registers of births, etc--History.

Registers of births, etc.

Census.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 532 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

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

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The jacket illustration is a household register affidavit issued in 1370, the first year of the Ming household census. It identifies the head of the household as Wang Jifo, a resident of district 10 west in Qimen county in Huizhou prefecture. The household consists of five persons: Wang, his wife, and son, and also his older brother and sister-in-law. The document records the names and ages of each person, and other details of the household. (Source: Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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ISBN:

9780191760402

0191760404

Publisher Number:

99989399301

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