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Agents beyond the State - The Writings of English Travelers, Soldiers, and Diplomats in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover, 1)
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Agents beyond the State - The Writings of English Travelers, Soldiers, and Diplomats in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover, 1)
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The early modern period is often seen as a pivotal stage in the
emergence of a recognizably modern form of the state. Agents beyond
the State returns to this context in order to examine the literary
and social practices through which the early modern state was
constituted. The state was defined not through the elaboration of
theoretical models of sovereignty but rather as an effect of the
literary and professional lives of its extraterritorial
representatives. Netzloff focuses on the textual networks and
literary production of three groups of extraterritorial agents:
travelers and intelligence agents, mercenaries, and diplomats.
These figures reveal the extent to which the administration of the
English state as well as definitions of national culture were
shaped by England's military, commercial, and diplomatic relations
in Europe and other regions across the globe. Netzloff emphasizes
the transnational contexts of early modern state formation, from
the Dutch Revolt and relations with Venice to the role of Catholic
exiles and nonstate agents in diplomacy and international law.
These global histories of travel, service, and labor additionally
transformed definitions of domestic culture, from the social
relations of classes and regions to the private sphere of
households and families. Literary writing and state service were
interconnected in the careers of Fynes Moryson, George Gascoigne,
and Sir Henry Wotton, among others. As they entered the realm of
print and addressed a reading public, they introduced the practices
of governance to an emerging public sphere.
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