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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Carter, Charles Howard,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1964]; ©1964
• Year of Publication: 1964
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231897297; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/cart94160
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Charles Howard Carter.

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