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The Eye of the Crown - The Development and Evolution of the Elizabethan Secret Service (Hardcover)
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The Eye of the Crown - The Development and Evolution of the Elizabethan Secret Service (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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This volume discusses the development of governmental
proto-bureaucracy, which led to and was influenced by the inclusion
of professional agents and spies in the early modern English
government. In the government's attempts to control religious
practices, wage war, and expand their mercantile reach both east
and west, spies and agents became essential figures of empire, but
their presence also fundamentally altered the old hierarchies of
class and power. The job of the spy or agent required fluidity of
role, the adoption of disguise and alias, and education, all
elements that contributed to the ideological breakdown of social
and class barriers. The volume argues that the inclusion of the
lower classes (commoners, merchants, messengers, and couriers) in
the machinery of government ultimately contributed to the creation
of governmental proto-bureaucracy. The importance and significance
of these spies is demonstrated through the use of statistical
social network analysis, analyzing social network maps and
statistics to discuss the prominence of particular figures within
the network and the overall shape and dynamics of the evolving
Elizabethan secret service. The Eye of the Crown is a useful
resource for students and scholars interested in government,
espionage, social hierarchy, and imperial power in Elizabethan
England.
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