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Privacy - A Short History (Hardcover)
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Privacy - A Short History (Hardcover)
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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. Key developments,
such as the nineteenth-century celebration of the enclosed and
intimate middle-class household, are placed in the context of
long-term development. The book surveys and challenges the main
currents in the extensive secondary literature on the subject. It
seeks to strike a new balance between the built environment and
world beyond the threshold, between written and face-to-face
communication, between anonymity and familiarity in towns and
cities, between religion and secular meditation, between the state
and the private sphere and, above all, between intimacy and
individualism. Ranging from the fourteenth century to the
twenty-first, this book shows that the history of privacy has been
an arena of contested choices, and not simply a progression towards
a settled ideal. Privacy: A Short History will be of interest to
students and scholars of history, and all those interested in this
topical subject.
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