The Secret Diplomacy of the Habsburgs, 1598-1625 / Charles Howard Carter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, Charles Howard, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1964]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Looks at the context of policy making specifically relating to the Spanish Hapsburg policy and intelligence from England.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

A Note on Method

Contents

About Spies and Such

Part One: The Context for Policymaking

1. The Peacemaking Phase and its Product

2. International Quarrels, Religious and Irreligious

3. International Attitudes and Outlooks

Part Two: The Making of Spanish Habsburg Policy

4. The Ultimate Question: War or Peace?

5. The Policymaking Apparatus-Madrid

6. The Policymaking Apparatus-Brussels

7. Parenthesis: Portrait of a Bureaucracy

8. The Informational Base of Foreign Policy

Part Three: Intelligence from England

9. The Court and Character of James I

10. Gondomar: The Classic Machiavelli

11. Jean-Baptiste van Male: A Renaissance Spymaster

12. William Sterrell: A Jacobean Letter Writer

Part Four: Spanish Espionage Put to the Test

13. A Problem of Espionage

14. An Extraordinary Embassy from France

15. The Laying Bare of Secrets

16. Denouement: The Bassompierre Mission to Madrid

17. Van Male and the Six Dutch Deputies

18. Secrets not Laid Bare

19. Gondomar in Mid-February, 1621

20. Van Male Blunders On

21. Denouement: The Pecquius Mission to the Hague

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89729-4

OCLC:

1100451233