The Dangerous Trade: Spies, Spymasters and the Making of Europe - Couverture souple

 
9781845860608: The Dangerous Trade: Spies, Spymasters and the Making of Europe

Synopsis

An academic but accessible study of espionage and its impact, this is the first in a series of studies in early modern European history edited by leading historians. Contents (Chapters include): Diego Guzman de Silva and Sixteenth-Century Venice: A Case Study in Structural Intelligence Failure Oxenstierna's Spies: Sir James Spens and the Organisation of Covert Action in Early Seventeenth-Century Sweden 'Woeful knight': Sir Robert Walsh and the Fragmented World of the Double Agent Nathaniel Hooke and the Dynamics of Covert Operations in Eighteenth-Century France The Fallen Politician's Way Back In: Melchor de Macanaz as Spy and Secret Negotiator Giacomo Casanova and the Venetian Inquisitors: a Domestic Espionage System in Action in Eighteenth-Century Europe - Paolo Preto (University of Padua)

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À propos de l'auteur

Daniel Szechi is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Manchester.

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