Mark Netzloff

Agents Beyond the State

The Writings of English Travelers, Soldiers, and Diplomats in Early Modern Europe

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Produktbeschreibung

Agents beyond the State examines the literary and social practices of early modern governance, focusing on the writings of the state's extraterritorial representatives. Netzloff analyzes the literary production of three groups of extraterritorial agents: travelers and intelligence agents, mercenaries, and diplomats.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780198857952
• ISBN-10: 0198857950
• Artikelnr.: 59860583

Autorenporträt

Mark Netzloff is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of England's Internal Colonies: Class, Capital, and the Literature of Early Modern English Colonialism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), the editor of John Norden's The Surveyor's Dialogue (1618): A Critical Edition (Ashgate, 2010), and the co-editor of Early Modern Drama in Performance: Essays in Honor of Lois Potter (University of Delaware, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Theorizing State Agents
1: The Information Economy of Early Modern Travel Writing
2: The Mercenary State: English Soldiers in the Dutch Revolt
3: Friends and Enemies in the Global History of Diplomacy
Afterword: The Cosmopolitical Bureau