| Biometric State : The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present K Breckenridge Cambridge University Press, 2014 | 480 | 2014 |
| Registration and Recognition: Documenting the Person in World History K Breckenridge, S Szreter Oxford University Press, 2012 | 225 | 2012 |
| The allure of violence: Men, race and masculinity on the South African goldmines, 1900–1950 K Breckenridge Journal of Southern African Studies 24 (4), 669-693, 1998 | 179 | 1998 |
| The biometric state: The promise and peril of digital government in the new South Africa K Breckenridge Journal of Southern African Studies 31 (2), 267-282, 2005 | 177 | 2005 |
| Registration and Recognition: the Infrastructure of Personhood in World History S Szreter, K Breckenridge Registration and Recognition: Documenting the person in World History, 1 - 38, 2012 | 105* | 2012 |
| Verwoerd's bureau of proof: total information in the making of apartheid K Breckenridge History Workshop Journal 59 (1), 83-108, 2005 | 83 | 2005 |
| The world's first biometric money: Ghana's e-Zwich and the contemporary influence of South African biometrics K Breckenridge Africa 80 (4), 642-662, 2010 | 76 | 2010 |
| Love letters and amanuenses: Beginning the cultural history of the working class private sphere in southern Africa, 1900-1933 K Breckenridge Journal of Southern African Studies 26 (2), 337-348, 2000 | 67 | 2000 |
| Migrancy, crime and faction fighting: The role of the Isitshozi in the development of ethnic organisations in the compounds K Breckenridge Journal of Southern African Studies 16 (1), 55-78, 1990 | 56 | 1990 |
| The Book of Life: The South African population register and the invention of racial descent, 1950-1980 K Breckenridge Kronos 40 (1), 225-240, 2014 | 53 | 2014 |
| The politics of the parallel archive: digital imperialism and the future of record-keeping in the age of digital reproduction K Breckenridge Journal of Southern African Studies 40 (3), 499-519, 2014 | 43 | 2014 |
| 14 No Will to Know: The Rise and Fall of African Civil Registration in Twentieth-Century South Africa K Breckenridge Proceedings of the British Academy 182, 357, 2012 | 38 | 2012 |
| Power without knowledge: Three nineteenth century colonialisms in South Africa K Breckenridge Journal of Natal and Zulu History 26 (1), 3-30, 2008 | 37 | 2008 |
| The Elusive Panopticon: The HANIS Project and the Politics of Standards in South Africa K Breckenridge Playing the identity card: surveillance, security and identification in …, 2008 | 36* | 2008 |
| The failure of the ‘single source of truth about Kenyans’: The NDRS, collateral mysteries and the Safaricom monopoly K Breckenridge African Studies 78 (1), 91-111, 2019 | 35 | 2019 |
| ‘Money with dignity’: Migrants, minelords and the cultural politics of the South African Gold Standard Crisis, 1920–33 K Breckenridge The Journal of African History 36 (2), 271-304, 1995 | 35 | 1995 |
| "We Must Speak for Ourselves": The Rise and Fall of a Public Sphere on the South African Gold Mines, 1920-1931 KD Breckenridge Comparative Studies in Society and History 40 (1), 71 - 108, 1998 | 34 | 1998 |
| Gandhi's Progressive Disillusionment: Thumbs, Fingers, and the Rejection of Scientific Modernism in Hind Swaraj K Breckenridge Public Culture 23 (2), 331-348, 2011 | 32 | 2011 |
| Fighting for a White South Africa: White working-class racism and the 1922 Rand Revolt The Rand Revolt: The 1922 Insurrection and Racial Killing in South Africa, Jeremy Krikler … K Breckenridge South African Historical Journal 57 (1), 228-243, 2007 | 29 | 2007 |
| Confronting African histories of technology: A conversation with Keith Breckenridge and Gabrielle Hecht D Serlin Radical History Review 2017 (127), 87-102, 2017 | 26 | 2017 |
Simon SzreterProfessor of History and Public Policy, Cambridge UniversityVerified email at cam.ac.uk
