The soft cage : surveillance in America from slavery to the war on terror /

Parenti, Christian.

The soft cage : surveillance in America from slavery to the war on terror / Christian Parenti. - New York, NY : Basic Books, c2003. - xii, 273 p. : ill. 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-256) and index.

This work details the continuum of surveillance in the making of the United States - from the slave pass to the Social Security number all the way to the many forms of computerized monitoring shaping the post-9/11 world."www.powells.com"

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Electronic surveillance--United States.
Political culture--United States.
Privacy, Right of--United States.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.

HN 57 / .P215 2003