We Know All About You: The Story of Surveillance in Britain and America (Hardcover)
 
作者: Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones 
分類: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 ,
21st century history: from c 2000 - ,
International relations ,
Espionage & secret services ,
Political control & freedoms ,
Freedom of information & freedom of speech ,
20th century  
書城編號: 1257917

原價: HK$294.00
現售: HK$279.3 節省: HK$14.7

購買此書 10本或以上 9折, 60本或以上 8折

購買後立即進貨, 約需 18-25 天

 
 
出版社: Oxford University Press
出版日期: 2017/06/01
尺寸: 205x137x28mm
重量: 0.39 kg
ISBN: 9780198749660
 
>> 相關電子書

商品簡介
This is the story of surveillance in Britain and the United States, from the detective agencies of the late nineteenth century to 'wikileaks' and CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden in the twenty-first. Written by prize-winning historian and intelligence expert Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, it is the first full overview of its kind.

Delving into the roles of credit agencies, private detectives, and phone-hacking journalists as well as agencies like the FBI and NSA in the USA and GCHQ and MI5 in the UK, Jeffreys-Jones highlights malpractices such as the blacklist and illegal electronic interceptions. He demonstrates that several presidents - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon - conducted various forms of political surveillance, and also how British agencies have been under a constant cloud of suspicion for similar reasons.

Continuing with an account of the 1970s leaks that revealed how the FBI and CIA kept tabs on anti-Vietnam War protestors, he assesses the reform impulse of this era - an impulse that began in America and only gradually spread to Britain. The end of the Cold War further at the end of the 1980s then undermined confidence in the need for state surveillance still further, but it was to return with a vengeance after 9/11.

What emerges is a story in which governments habitually abuse their surveillance powers once granted, demonstrating the need for proper controls in this area. But, as Jeffreys-Jones makes clear, this is not simply a story of the Orwellian state. While private sector firms have sometimes acted as a brake on surveillance by the state (particularly in the electronic era), they have also often engaged in dubious surveillance practices of their own. Oversight and regulation, he argues, therefore need to be universal and not simply concentrate on the threat to the individual posed by the agencies of government.

Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones 作者作品表

A Question of Standing: The History of the CIA (Compact Disc)

Ring of Spies: How MI5 and the FBI Brought Down the Nazis in America (Paperback)

eBook: Question of Standing: The History of the CIA (DRM EPUB)

eBook: Question of Standing: The History of the CIA (DRM PDF)

eBook: Ring of Spies: How MI5 and the FBI Brought Down the Nazis in America (DRM EPUB)

Ring of Spies: How MI5 and the FBI Brought Down the Nazis in America (Hardcover)

We Know All About You: The Story of Surveillance in Britain and America (Hardcover)

eBook: We Know All About You: The Story of Surveillance in Britain and America (DRM EPUB)

eBook: We Know All About You: The Story of Surveillance in Britain and America (DRM PDF)

In Spies We Trust (Paperback)

eBook: In Spies We Trust: The Story of Western Intelligence (DRM EPUB)

eBook: In Spies We Trust: The Story of Western Intelligence (DRM PDF)

eBook: CIA & American Democracy (DRM EPUB)

eBook: CIA & American Democracy (DRM PDF)

* 以上資料僅供參考之用, 香港書城並不保證以上資料的準確性及完整性。
* 如送貨地址在香港以外, 當書籍/產品入口時, 顧客須自行繳付入口關稅和其他入口銷售稅項。

 

 

 

  我的賬戶 |  購物車 |  出版社 |  團購優惠
加入供應商 |  廣告刊登 |  公司簡介 |  條款及細則

香港書城 版權所有 私隱政策聲明

顯示模式: 電腦版 (改為: 手機版)