VENICE'S SECRET SERVICE:ORGANIZING INTELLIGENCE IN THE RENAISSANCE CLOTH($40.10Value)

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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. "This book includes many of the kinds of stories one hopes to find in a history of espionage: state-ordered poisonings; letter interceptions and invisible ink ... This is an intriguing twist on recent works." -- Rosa Salzberg, Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte "I found much to admire in this work, and I expect I will find myself returning to it repeatedly. Iordanou has done a great service to the field in parsing the complexity of the Venetian intelligence system." -- Eric R. Dursteler, Journal of Modern History "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." -- Professor Tom Wilson, Information Research "This book includes many of the kinds of stories one hopes to find in a history of espionage: state-ordered poisonings; letter interceptions and invisible ink ... This is an intriguing twist on recent works." -- Rosa Salzberg, Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte "I found much to admire in this work, and I expect I will find myself returning to it repeatedly. Iordanou has done a great service to the field in parsing the complexity of the Venetian intelligence system." -- Eric R. Dursteler, Journal of Modern History "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." -- Professor Tom Wilson, Information Research Ioanna Iordanou, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Oxford Brookes University 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 . Ioanna Iordanou, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Oxford Brookes University 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 .