Venice's Secret Service: Organising Intelligence in the Renaissance

ISBN-13: 9780198791317 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 288 str.

Ioanna Iordanou

Opis

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.

Recenzje

This is a book that will fascinate anyone interested in intelligence services, the history of information management, the development of cryptography, or the history of Venice.

O autorze

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.