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

Marshall, Alan; Murdoch, Steve

 
9781845860608: The Dangerous Trade: Spies, Spymasters and the Making of Europe
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1845860608 ISBN 13: 9781845860608
Verlag: Discovery Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

This book is about the secret history of Europe. Drawing on the latest research by experts in the field, it opens up the hidden world of the Dangerous Trade: the spying and secret operations that made and broke European nations between 1500 and 1800. Espionage, blackmail and bribery were the Trade's regular tools; assassination, provoking civil war and black propaganda were the ones used for 'special' occasions. But who were the practitioners of these dark arts? How were they recruited? What did they achieve? By exploring the lives of spies and secret agents such as Giacomo Casanova, Nathaniel Hooke, Melchor de Macanaz and many more, the book reveals the unknown story that underlies the making of modern Europe.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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



Daniel Szechi is a graduate of the University of Sheffield and St Antony's College, Oxford. He is currently Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Manchester, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Historical Society. His publications include: 1715: The Great Jacobite Rebellion (2006), George Lockhart of Carnwath 1689-1727: a Study in Jacobitism (2002) and The Jacobites: Britain and Europe, 1688-1788 (1994).

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Verlag
Discovery Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1845860608
ISBN 13 
9781845860608
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
280
Herausgeber
Szechi Daniel, Preto Paolo, Storrs Christopher
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