Personal Identity in the Modern World: A Society of Strangers

Lawrence M. Friedman

Personal Identity in the Modern World: A Society of Strangers
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Country
United States
Published
15 August 2022
Pages
198
ISBN
9781538166840

Personal Identity in the Modern World: A Society of Strangers

Lawrence M. Friedman

In a society of strangers, there develops what can be called crimes of mobility – forms of criminality rare in traditional societies: bigamy, the confidence game, and blackmail, for example. What they have in common is a kind of fraudulent role-playing, which the new society makes possible. This book explores the social and legal consequences of social and geographical mobility in the United States and Great Britain from the beginning of the 19th century on. Personal identity became more fluid. Lines between classes blurred. Impostors abound.

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