National identification systems : essays in opposition /
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| Imprint: | Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2004. |
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| Description: | ix, 308 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5082328 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part I. A History of Government ID and Citizen-Tracking
- 1.. Men Ahead of Their Times
- 2.. Government Surnames and Legal Identities
- 3.. Genocide and Group Classification on National ID Cards
- 4.. The Compulsory Birth and Death Certificate in the United States
- 5.. A National Fingerprint System for the United States
- 6.. Drivers Licenses and Vehicle Registration in Historical Perspective
- 7.. The Russian Card: The Propiska
- 8.. Population Registers in the Netherlands During World War II
- 9.. The English Identity Cards
- 10.. A History of the Census
- Part II. Contemporary Issues
- 11.. Systematic Federal Surveillance of Ordinary Americans
- 12.. National ID: Our Line in the Sand
- 13.. The Australia Card: Campaign of Opposition
- 14.. The Social Security Number in America: 1935-2000
- 15.. My National I.D. Card Is a Threat to Your Civil Liberties
- 16.. How Computers Are a Menace to Liberty
- 17.. Why I Oppose Government Enumeration
- Part III. The Future and Resistance
- 18.. Gandhi's Story in South Africa
- 19.. Give Me Liberty
- 20.. Resist Enumeration
- 21.. National I.D. for All Public Servants
- 22.. An American Refusenik
- 23.. Red Tap
- 24.. Why I Refuse to Be Numbered
- 25.. Slavery and National ID
- 26.. ID Without Big Brother
- 27.. Epilogue: National ID and the Police State
- For Further Reading
- Index
