Noel Malcolm

Broschiertes Buch

Agents of Empire

Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World

Beschreibung

In the second half of the sixteenth century, most of the Christian states of Western Europe were on the defensive against a Muslim superpower - the Empire of the Ottoman sultans. This title describes the paths taken through the eastern Mediterranean and its European hinterland by members of a Venetian-Albanian family.

Autor

Noel Malcolm, a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy, has previously written histories of Bosnia (1994) and Kosovo (1998). He is a general editor of the Clarendon edition of Thomas Hobbes, for which he himself has produced acclaimed editions of Hobbes's correspondence (1994) and Leviathan (2012). He is also a former Foreign Editor of the Spectator. He was knighted in 2014. Agents of Empire is his newest book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin / Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 461g
• ISBN-13: 9780141978376
• ISBN-10: 0141978376
• Artikelnr.: 43852439

Rezensionen

The book is a masterpiece, which will open the eyes of readers to the intrinsic interest and importance of a historically neglected region of Europe within the framework of a relationship between civilizations which is as complex today as it was in the sixteenth century. Sir John Elliott, Regius Professor of History Emeritus, University of Oxford