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Privacy: A Short History
David Vincent
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Description for Privacy: A Short History
Paperback. * David Vincent is a foremost social historian and has been working on the history of privacy and secrecy for a number of years * This new book will be a short history of privacy since the middle ages. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHB; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Privacy: A Short History provides a vital historical account of an increasingly stressed sphere of human interaction. At a time when the death of privacy is widely proclaimed, distinguished historian, David Vincent, describes the evolution of the concept and practice of privacy from the Middle Ages to the present controversy over digital communication and state surveillance provoked by the revelations of Edward Snowden. Deploying a range of vivid primary material, he discusses the management of private information in the context of housing, outdoor spaces, religious observance, reading, diaries and autobiographies, correspondence, neighbours, gossip, surveillance, the public sphere and the state. ... Read more
Privacy: A Short History provides a vital historical account of an increasingly stressed sphere of human interaction. At a time when the death of privacy is widely proclaimed, distinguished historian, David Vincent, describes the evolution of the concept and practice of privacy from the Middle Ages to the present controversy over digital communication and state surveillance provoked by the revelations of Edward Snowden. Deploying a range of vivid primary material, he discusses the management of private information in the context of housing, outdoor spaces, religious observance, reading, diaries and autobiographies, correspondence, neighbours, gossip, surveillance, the public sphere and the state. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
204
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745671130
SKU
V9780745671130
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99-50
About David Vincent
DAVID VINCENT is Professor Emeritus and former Pro Vice Chancellor at the Open University, UK.
Reviews for Privacy: A Short History
Forget what you think you know about privacy. In this vivid, discerning book ranging from the 14th century to yesterday, David Vincent knocks over much of the received wisdom about this hotly-debated concept. Privacy is not now 'dead' nor was it invented in the eighteenth century. An original and important synthesis. Deborah Cohen, Northwestern University Have the reports of ... Read more