Privacy – A Short History Vincent Hardback Polity Press 9780745671123

Privacy\n\nA Short History\n\nDavid Vincent (Author)\n\n9780745671123, Polity Press\n\nHardback, published 22 January 2016\n\n204 pages\n23.6 x 16 x 2 cm, 0.431 kg\n\n\""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 \uFFFDdead\uFFFD nor was it invented in the eighteenth century. An original and important synthesis.\""\nDeborah Cohen, Northwestern University\n\n \uFFFDHave the reports of privacy\uFFFDs demise been greatly exaggerated, or is it the dodo of our digitized world? Social historian David Vincent examines that question in this deft study of privacy in houses, cities, correspondence and surveillance, from 1300 to today.\uFFFD\nNature\n\n \""Those who think privacy is a modern luxury, and those who predict its imminent extinction, will each have their certainties questioned by this wise, d]