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The dangerous trade : spies, spymasters and the making of Europe

Title
The dangerous trade : spies, spymasters and the making of Europe / edited by Daniel Szechi.
Publication
Dundee : Dundee University Press, 2010.

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Additional Authors
Szechi, D. (Daniel)
Description
xvi, 199 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
Summary
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.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-191) and index.
Contents
Diego Guzman de Silva and sixteenth-century Venice : a case study in structural intelligence failure / Michael J. Levin -- Oxenstierna's spies : Sir James Spens and the organisation of covert action in early seventeenth-century Sweden / Steve Murdoch -- 'Woeful knight' : Sir Robert Walsh and the fragmented world of the double agent / Steve Murdoch -- Nathaniel Hooke and the dynamics of covert operations in eighteenth-century France / Daniel Szechi -- The fallen politician's way back in : Melchor de Macanaz as spy and secret negotiator / Christopher Storrs -- Giacomo Casanova and the Venetian inquisitors : a domestic espionage system in action in eighteenth-century Europe / Paolo Preto.
Call Number
JFE 12-4061
ISBN
  • 9781845860608
  • 1845860608
OCLC
696113651
Title
The dangerous trade : spies, spymasters and the making of Europe / edited by Daniel Szechi.
Imprint
Dundee : Dundee University Press, 2010.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-191) and index.
Added Author
Szechi, D. (Daniel)
Research Call Number
JFE 12-4061
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