Histories of Surveillance from Antiquity to the Digital Era: The Eyes and Ears of Power

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Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents List of contributors Introduction: histories of surveillance from antiquity to the digital era 1 Big data in early China: population surveillance in the early Chinese empires 2 “Consciences are not to bee forced, but to bee Wonne”: the inward turn in Elizabethan homiletic discourse and the legal debate over the ex officio oath in the Court of High Commission, 1570–1593 3 Sexual surveillance in Paris and Versailles under Louis XIV 4 Convict surveillance and reform in theory and practice: Jeremy Bentham versus New South Wales 5 Surveillance on the assembly line: communist resistance to modern production at the Stollwerck Chocolate Factory, 1924–1930 6 Securing the state: the First World War and the birth of the modern surveillance state in Scandinavia 7 Civil liberties, state police wartime measures, and the case of “the Six” 8 Citizen informants, glitches in the system, and the limits of collaboration: Eastern experiences in the Cold War Era 9 The historical ubiquity of surveillance 10 The archipelago of global surveillance – without States – in the Western world Index