1st Edition
Histories of Surveillance from Antiquity to the Digital Era The Eyes and Ears of Power
Introduction: histories of surveillance from antiquity to the digital era 1
ANDREAS MARKLUND AND LAURA SKOUVIG
2 Big data in early China: population surveillance in the early Chinese empires 20
REBECCA ROBINSON
3 “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 37
ANNI HAAHR HENRIKSEN
4 Sexual surveillance in Paris and Versailles under Louis XIV 53
NATÁLIA DA SILVA PEREZ
5 Convict surveillance and reform in theory and practice: Jeremy Bentham versus New South Wales 70
MATTHEW ALLEN
6 Surveillance on the assembly line: communist resistance to modern production at the Stollwerck Chocolate Factory, 1924–1930 87
SARA ANN SEWELL
7 Securing the state: the First World War and the birth of the modern surveillance state in Scandinavia 105
NIK BRANDAL, EIRIK BRAZIER AND OLA TEIGE
8 Civil liberties, state police wartime measures, and the case of “the Six” 122
VILLE OKKONEN AND TIINA LINTUNEN
9 Citizen informants, glitches in the system, and the limits of collaboration: Eastern experiences in the Cold War Era 146
CAROL ANNE COSTABILE-HEMING, VALENTINA GLAJAR AND ALISON LEWIS
10 The historical ubiquity of surveillance 163
TONI WELLER
11 The archipelago of global surveillance – without States – in the Western world 180
SÉBASTIEN-YVES LAURENT
Biography
Andreas Marklund is Senior Research Fellow at ENIGMA – the Museum of Communication in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Laura Skouvig is Associate Professor at the Department of Communication at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
