{"product_id":"strangers-and-intimates-rise-and-fall-of-private-life-the-9781529034165","title":"Strangers and Intimates: Rise and Fall of Private Life, the","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe fascinating story of how private life was won, and how it might just as easily be lost . . .\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePrivate life is in mortal danger, following decades in which it has been relinquished and ransacked. It is threatened by a three-headed monster: state and corporate surveillance, a confessional, 'tell-all' culture that makes people complicit in the invasion of their own privacy, and the intense politicization of private life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTiffany Jenkins's groundbreaking book traces the emergence of private sanctuaries from authority and public opinion to show that private life is a very recent - and hard-won - achievement. It also warns that, if we're not careful, it will be a temporary one. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eStrangers and Intimates \u003c\/i\u003eis animated by dramatic human confrontations: from the political struggles in the seventeenth century that led to Edmund Coke's rallying cry that 'an Englishman's home is his castle'; to the first modern privacy panic in 1844, when the British government opened private letters sent to the exiled Italian republican Giuseppe Mazzini; and from the embrace by the public of reality TV to the Chinese government's social credit system. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA private life is a precious, sustaining resource that is of profound intrinsic value, and it must be defended. We won't know what we have lost until it has gone . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781529034165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.00d","brand":"Tiffany Jenkins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45418963370165,"sku":"9781529034165","price":24.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_c1bd6792-2781-4e78-b46d-542583ce737e.jpg?v=1748390425","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/strangers-and-intimates-rise-and-fall-of-private-life-the-9781529034165","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}