Intelligence and espionage in the English Repub. Marshall**

Manchester University Press

Intelligence and Espionage in the English Republic c. 160060Author(s): Alan Marshall\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Manchester University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Manchester University Press\nISBN-13: 9781526118899, 978-1526118899\nSynopsis\nThis ambitious and important book is a richly detailed account of the ideas and activities in the early-modern secret state and its agencies, spies, informers and intelligencers, under the English Republic and the Cromwellian protectorate. \n\nThe book investigates the meanings this early-modern Republican state acquired to express itself, by exploring its espionage actions, the moral conundrums, and the philosophical background of secret government in the era. It considers in detail the culture and language of plots, conspiracies, and intrigues and it also exposes how the intelligence activities of the Three Kingdoms began to be situated within early-modern government from the Civil Wars to the rule of Oliver Cromwell. It introduces the re.