Who Are You?: Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe
Who are you? And how can you prove it? How were individuals described and identified in the centuries before photography and fingerprinting, in a world without centralized administrations, where names and addresses were constantly changing? In Who are You?, Valentin Groebner traces the early modern European history of identification practices and identity papers.\ The documents, seals, stamps, and signatures were—and are—powerful tools that created the double of a person in writ and bore the...
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The prehistory of modern passport and identification technologies: the documents, seals, and stamps, that could document and transform their owner's identity. The Washington Post - Michael Dirda In Who Are You? Valentin Groebner shows us that the surveillance and security culture of the 21st century has a long history, as does that of its counterculture of fakes, forgeries and impostors.
\ Michael DirdaIn Who Are You? Valentin Groebner shows us that the surveillance and security culture of the 21st century has a long history, as does that of its counterculture of fakes, forgeries and impostors.\ — The Washington Post\ \
