The story of surveillance in Britain and the United States - from the detective agencies of the late nineteenth century to the era of wikileaks and the Snowden revelations in the twenty-first. The first history of its kind - and a salutary assessment of the dangers of the surveillance society in which we live today.
The story of surveillance in Britain and the United States - from the detective agencies of the late nineteenth century to the era of wikileaks and the Snowden revelations in the twenty-first. The first history of its kind - and a salutary assessment of the dangers of the surveillance society in which we live today.
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones is Emeritus Professor of American History at the University of Edinburgh and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard, the Free University of Berlin, and Toronto. The founder of the Scottish Association for the Study of America, of which is he the current honorary president, he has also published widely on intelligence history, including The CIA and American Democracy (1989), The FBI: A History (2007), and In Spies We Trust: The Story of Western Intelligence , the last of these also published by Oxford University Press (2013). He was the winner of the 2014 Neustadt Prize for the best UK book on American politics with The American Left: Its Impact on Politics and Society (2013).
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Introduction 1: A Survey of Surveillance 2: The Private Eye Invades our Privacy 3: The Blacklist 4: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Incipient Surveillance State 5: McCarthyism in America 6: McCarthyism in Britain 7: COINTELPRO and 1960s surveillance 8: An Age of Transparency 9: The Intensification of Surveillance Post-9/11 10: Private-Sector Surveillance in the Twenty-First Century 11: Snowden 12: Policy and Reform in the Obama-Cameron Era Conclusion Appendix Bibliography
Introduction 1: A Survey of Surveillance 2: The Private Eye Invades our Privacy 3: The Blacklist 4: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Incipient Surveillance State 5: McCarthyism in America 6: McCarthyism in Britain 7: COINTELPRO and 1960s surveillance 8: An Age of Transparency 9: The Intensification of Surveillance Post-9/11 10: Private-Sector Surveillance in the Twenty-First Century 11: Snowden 12: Policy and Reform in the Obama-Cameron Era Conclusion Appendix Bibliography
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