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The dangerous trade : spies, spymasters and making of Europe / edited by Daniel Szechi.
- Title
- The dangerous trade : spies, spymasters and making of Europe / edited by Daniel Szechi.
- Publication
- Dundee : Dundee University Press, 2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | UB271.E85 D36 2010 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Szechi, D. (Daniel)
- Description
- xvi, 199p : plates; 24cm.
- 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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781845860608
- 1845860608
- OCLC
- 696113651
- SCSB-11660056
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library