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The secret world : a history of intelligence /

"The history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The codebreakers at Bletchley Park, the most successful World War II intelligence agency, were completely unaware that their predece...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Andrew, Christopher M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2018.
Colección:Henry L. Stimson lectures, Yale University.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Intro; Half Title; Title; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction: The Lost History of Global Intelligence; 1 In the Beginning: Spies of the Bible and Ancient Egypt from Moses to the Last Supper; 2 Intelligence Operations in Ancient Greece: Myth and Reality from Odysseus to Alexander the Great; 3 Intelligence and Divination in the Roman Republic; 4 The Art of War and the Arthashastra: How China and India Took an Early Lead over Greece and Rome; 5 The Roman Empire and the Untermenschen; 6 Muhammad and the Rise of Islamic Intelligence
  • 7 Inquisitions and Counter-Subversion8 Renaissance Venice and the Rise of Western Intelligence; 9 Ivan the Terrible and the Origins of Russian State Security; 10 Elizabeth I, Walsingham and the Rise of English Intelligence; 11 The Decline of Early Stuart and Spanish Intelligence, and the Rise of the French Cabinet Noir; 12 Intelligence and Regime Change in Britain: From the Civil War to the Popish Plot; 13 Intelligence in the Era of the Sun King; 14 Codebreakers and Spies in Ancien Régime Europe: From the Hanoverian Succession to the Seven Years War; 15 Intelligence and American Independence
  • 16 The French Revolution and the Revolutionary Wars17 The Napoleonic Wars; 18 Intelligence and Counter-Revolution. Part I: From the Congress of Vienna to the 1848 Revolutions; 19 Intelligence and Counter-Revolution. Part II: From 1848 to the Death of Karl Marx; 20 The Telegraph, Mid-Century Wars and the 'Great Game'; 21 'The Golden Age of Assassination': Anarchists, Revolutionaries and the Black Hand, 1880-1914; 22 The Great Powers and Foreign Intelligence, 1890-1909; 23 Intelligence and the Coming of the First World War
  • 24 The First World War. Part I: From the Outbreak of War to the Zimmermann Telegram25 The First World War. Part 2: From American Intervention to Allied Victory; 26 SIGINT and HUMINT between the Wars; 27 The 'Big Three' and Second World War Intelligence; 28 Intelligence and the Victory of the Grand Alliance; 29 The Cold War and the Intelligence Superpowers; 30 'Holy Terror': From the Cold War to 9/11; Conclusion: Twenty-First-Century Intelligence in Long-Term Perspective; Bibliography; Abbreviations Used in the Notes and References; Notes; Acknowledgements; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I
  • JK; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z