Ioanna Iordanou (Seni Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management

Venice's Secret Service

Organising Intelligence in the Renaissance

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Produktbeschreibung

Ioanna Iordanou traces the remarkable development of Venetian intelligence in the city-state system of Northern Italy, contesting that early-modern Venice was home of the world's first centrally-organized state intelligence service, setting a framework that has been instrumental in the creation of modern intelligence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 162mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780198791317
• ISBN-10: 0198791313
• Artikelnr.: 57009056

Autorenporträt

Ioanna Iordanou is a Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at Oxford Brookes University and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at Warwick University. Her research is in economic and business history and organisation studies, focusing on the complex role of intelligence and espionage in early modern economies and the emergence of proto-modern organisations in the pre-industrial world. She is the co-editor of Spy Chiefs , Volume 1: Intelligence Leaders in the United States and the United Kingdom and Spy Chiefs, Volume 2: Intelligence Leaders in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. She also co-authored the award-winning book Values and Ethics in Coaching.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Venice and Venetian Intelligence in the European Panorama
2: State Secrecy, a Venetian Virtue
3: Renaissance Venice's Intelligence Organisation
4: Venice's Department of Cryptology
5: Venice's Secret Agents
6: Extraordinary Measures
Epilogue: Venice's Secret Service: An Evaluation