Kingdoms of Paper
Natalie Zemon Davis: Identity and Faking It, 18 October 2007
Who Are You? Identification, Deception and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe
by Valentin Groebner, translated by Mark Kyburz and John Peck.
Zone, 349 pp., £18.95, April 2007,978 1 890951 72 6 Show More
by Valentin Groebner, translated by Mark Kyburz and John Peck.
Zone, 349 pp., £18.95, April 2007,
“... that the monarchies of the 17th and 18th centuries developed to control their subjects. Valentin Groebner traces the origins back to the regulatory urges of even older political and religious institutions: ‘Modern identity papers can in fact be described as the combined outcome of those techniques developed between the 13th and the 16th ... ”
