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Routledge Eye of the Crown: Elizabethan Secret Service History

Name: Eye of the Crown: Elizabethan Secret Service History
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This scholarly volume examines how England's proto-bureaucratic government developed and transformed through the integration of professional spies and agents during the Elizabethan era. As the crown pursued religious control, military expansion, and mercantile dominance across global trade routes, intelligence operatives became indispensable to imperial ambitions. The work explores how espionage fundamentally disrupted traditional class hierarchies and power structures, requiring agents to master role flexibility, disguise, alias adoption, and sophisticated education. By analysing the evolution of England's early modern secret service, this Routledge Research study reveals how clandestine operations shaped governmental institutions and redefined what it meant to serve the state during a transformative historical period.

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Analyses the development of governmental proto-bureaucracy and professional espionage in early modern England under Elizabethan rule.

Examines how spies and agents became essential to the crown's religious, military, and mercantile expansion strategies across east and west.

Explores the ways intelligence work required agents to adopt disguises, aliases, and specialised education to function effectively.

Investigates how the spy profession fundamentally altered traditional class and power hierarchies within English society and government.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1032228296
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > War & Espionage > Espionage
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 19 August 2022
Listed Since: 26 February 2022

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