Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain
Nadine Akkerman
The very first study to analyze the role of early modern women as spies.
Foregrounds the agency of early modern women, offering a corrective to the gender bias implicit in modern historiography.
Explores the uses of codes, ciphers, and invisible inks, giving new insights into the mechanics and prevalence of espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain.
Offers a series of detailed case studies, telling the takes of such women as Aphra Behn, Susan Hyde, and Elizabeth Murray.
Grounded in a wealth of archival sources, many of which were only recently discovered.
Awarded the prize for "the best book published on Women and Gender in 2018" by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender.
Κατηγορίες:
Έτος:
2018
Εκδότης:
Oxford University Press
Γλώσσα:
english
Σελίδες:
288
ISBN 10:
0198849427
ISBN 13:
9780198849421
Αρχείο:
PDF, 52.96 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2018