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