The Dangerous Trade: The Dangerous Trade: Spies, Spying and Spymasters
Author: Michael J. Levin (University of Akron, Ohio), Alan Marshall (Bath Spa), Steve Murdoch (University of St Andrews), Paolo Preto (University of Padua), Christopher Storrs (University of Dundee) and Daniel Szechi (University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9781845860608
Format: Paperback
Price: £25.00
Publication Month: August 2010
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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