Introduction: histories of surveillance from antiquity to the digital era 1

ANDREAS MARKLUND AND LAURA SKOUVIG

2 Big data in early China: population surveillance in the early Chinese empires 20

REBECCA ROBINSON

3 "Consciences are not to bee forced, but to bee Wonne": the inward turn in Elizabethan homiletic discourse and the legal debate over the ex officio oath in the Court of High Commission, 1570-1593 37

ANNI HAAHR HENRIKSEN

4 Sexual surveillance in Paris and Versailles under Louis XIV 53

NATÁLIA DA SILVA PEREZ

5 Convict surveillance and reform in theory and practice: Jeremy Bentham versus New South Wales 70

MATTHEW ALLEN

6 Surveillance on the assembly line: communist resistance to modern production at the Stollwerck Chocolate Factory, 1924-1930 87

SARA ANN SEWELL

7 Securing the state: the First World War and the birth of the modern surveillance state in Scandinavia 105

NIK BRANDAL, EIRIK BRAZIER AND OLA TEIGE

8 Civil liberties, state police wartime measures, and the case of "the Six" 122

VILLE OKKONEN AND TIINA LINTUNEN

9 Citizen informants, glitches in the system, and the limits of collaboration: Eastern experiences in the Cold War Era 146

CAROL ANNE COSTABILE-HEMING, VALENTINA GLAJAR AND ALISON LEWIS

10 The historical ubiquity of surveillance 163

TONI WELLER

11 The archipelago of global surveillance - without States - in the Western world 180

SÉBASTIEN-YVES LAURENT