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

by Andreas Marklund (Editor), Laura Skouvig (Editor)

Deploying empirical studies from early Imperial China to the global security landscape after the Nine-Eleven terrorist attacks, 17 scholars offer a comprehensive overview of the history of surveillance that sheds new light on the hidden mechanisms of power that impels surveillance as societal phenomenon.