Research Catalog

Title

The secret world : a history of intelligence / Christopher Andrew.

Author

Andrew, Christopher M.

Publication

• New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Description

xii, 948 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color); 25 cm.

Summary

"The history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The codebreakers at Bletchley Park, the most successful World War II intelligence agency, were completely unaware that their predecessors in earlier moments of national crisis had broken the codes of Napoleon during the Napoleonic wars and those of Spain before the Spanish Armada. Those who do not understand past mistakes are likely to repeat them. Intelligence is a prime example. At the outbreak of World War I, the grasp of intelligence shown by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith was not in the same class as that of George Washington during the Revolutionary War and leading eighteenth-century British statesmen. In this book, the first global history of espionage ever written, distinguished historian Christopher Andrew recovers much of the lost intelligence history of the past three millennia--and shows us its relevance."--

Series Statement

Henry L. Stimson lectures series

Uniform Title

Henry L. Stimson lectures, Yale University.

Subjects

• Intelligence service > History
• Espionage > History
• History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 761-818) and index.

Contents

Introduction: The Lost History of Global Intelligence -- 1. In the Beginning: Spies of the Bible and Ancient Egypt from Moses to the Last Supper -- 2. Intelligence Operations in Ancient Greece: Myth and Reality from Odysseus to Alexander the Great -- 3. Intelligence and Divination in the Roman Republic -- 4. The Art of War and the Arthashastra: How China and India Took an Early Lead over Greece and Rome -- 5. The Roman Empire and the Untermenschen -- 6. Muhammad and the Rise of Islamic Intelligence -- 7. Inquisitions and Counter-Subversion -- 8. Renaissance Venice and the Rise of Western Intelligence -- 9. Ivan the Terrible and the Origins of Russian State Security -- 10. Elizabeth I, Walsingham and the Rise of English Intelligence -- 11. The Decline of Early Stuart and Spanish Intelligence, and the Rise of the French Cabinet Noir -- 12. Intelligence and Regime Change in Britain: From the Civil War to the Popish Plot -- 13. Intelligence and the Era of the Sun King -- 14. Codebreakers and Spies in Ancien Régime Europe: From the Hanoverian Succession to the Seven Years War -- 15. Intelligence and American Independence -- 16. The French Revolution and the Revolutionary Wars -- 17. The Napoleonic Wars -- 18. Intelligence and Counter-Revolution. Part I: From the Congress of Vienna to the 1848 Revolutions -- 19. Intelligence and Counter-Revolution. Part II: From 1848 to the Death of Karl Marx -- 20. The Telegraph, Mid-Century Wars and the 'Great Game' -- 21. 'The Golden Age of Assassination: Anarchists, Revolutionaries and the Black Hand, 1880-1914 -- 22. The Great Powers and Foreign Intelligence, 1890-1909 -- 23. Intelligence and the Coming of the First World War -- 24. The First World War. Part I: From the Outbreak of War to the Zimmermann Telegram -- 25. The First World War. Part 2: From American Intervention to Allied Victory -- 26. SIGINT and HUMINT between the Wars -- 27. The 'Big Three' and Second World War Intelligence -- 28. Intelligence and the Victory of the Grand Alliance -- 29. The Cold War and the Intelligence Superpowers -- 30. 'Holy Terror': From the Cold War to 9/11 -- Conclusion: Twenty-First-Century Intelligence in Long-Term Perspective.

Call Number

JFE 20-119

ISBN

• 9780300238440
• 0300238444
• 9780300248296
• 0300248296

LCCN

2018947154

OCLC

1049146044

Author

Andrew, Christopher M., author. Author

Title

The secret world : a history of intelligence / Christopher Andrew.

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Gender group: Men

Nationality/regional group: Britons

Occupational/field of activity group: History teachers

Occupational/field of activity group: University and college faculty members

Social group: Retirees

Series

Henry L. Stimson lectures series

Henry L. Stimson lectures, Yale University.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 761-818) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 20-119