| Description |
1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Cover -- Agents Beyond the State: The Writings of English Travelers, Soldiers, and Diplomats in Early Modern Europe -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Images -- Introduction: Theorizing State Agents -- 0.1 Sovereignty, State Agents, and Practices of Governance -- 0.2 The State and Public Sphere -- 0.3 Stateless Persons and Nonstate Agents in the Law of Nations -- 0.4 Outline of Individual Chapters -- 1: The Information Economy of Early Modern Travel Writing -- 1.1 Irregular Travelers: Intelligence Networks and Travel Advice Literature |
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1.2 The Narrative Accounting of Fynes Moryson's Itinerary -- 1.3 Thomas Coryat: Sociability, Labor, and the Market Speed of Print -- 2: The Mercenary State: English Soldiers in the Dutch Revolt -- 2.1 Early Modern England's Forgotten Wars -- 2.2 George Gascoigne, Literary Mercenary -- 2.3 Delegation, Expertise, and the Extraterritorial Economies of War -- 2.4 Foreign Service and Domestic Households: Rycote and Penshurst -- 2.5 1596: Bringing the War Back Home -- 3: Friends and Enemies in the Global History of Diplomacy |
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3.1 The Ambassador's Household: Sir Henry Wotton, Domesticity, and Diplomatic Writing -- 3.2 Catholic Exiles and the English State After the Gunpowder Plot -- 3.3 Lines of Amity: The Law of Nations in the Americas -- Afterword: The Cosmopolitical Bureau -- Bibliography -- 1. Primary Sources -- 2. Secondary Sources -- Index |
| Summary |
Agents beyond the State examines the literary and social practices of early modern governance, focusing on the writings of the state's extraterritorial representatives. Netzloff analyzes the literary production of three groups of extraterritorial agents: travelers and intelligence agents, mercenaries, and diplomats |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Themes, motives
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Travel writing -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century
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Soldiers' writings, English -- History and criticism
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Diplomatic relations.
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Soldiers' writings, English.
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Travel writing.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1485-1603.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056688
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| Subject |
Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192599865 |
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0192599860 |
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