Postal Intelligence
Postal Intelligence connects and situates histories of the post and government intelligence alongside print technology and state power in the wider context of the early modern communications revolution. In the sixteenth century, postal services became central to domestic governance and foreign polic...
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Cornell University Press
2026
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| description | Postal Intelligence connects and situates histories of the post and government intelligence alongside print technology and state power in the wider context of the early modern communications revolution. In the sixteenth century, postal services became central to domestic governance and foreign policy enterprises, extended government reach and surveillance, and offered new control over the public sphere.Rachel Midura focuses on the Tassis family, members of which served as official postmasters to the dukes of Milan, the pope, Spanish kings, and Holy Roman emperors. Using administrative records and family correspondence, she follows the Tassis family, their agents, and their rivals as their influence expanded from northern Italy across Europe. Postal Intelligence shows how postmasters and postmistresses were key players in early modern diplomacy, commerce, and journalism, whose ultimate success depended on both administrative ingenuity and strategic ambiguity. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1714932026-02-12T10:32:57Z Postal Intelligence Midura, Rachel History / Medieval thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history Postal Intelligence connects and situates histories of the post and government intelligence alongside print technology and state power in the wider context of the early modern communications revolution. In the sixteenth century, postal services became central to domestic governance and foreign policy enterprises, extended government reach and surveillance, and offered new control over the public sphere.Rachel Midura focuses on the Tassis family, members of which served as official postmasters to the dukes of Milan, the pope, Spanish kings, and Holy Roman emperors. Using administrative records and family correspondence, she follows the Tassis family, their agents, and their rivals as their influence expanded from northern Italy across Europe. Postal Intelligence shows how postmasters and postmistresses were key players in early modern diplomacy, commerce, and journalism, whose ultimate success depended on both administrative ingenuity and strategic ambiguity. 2026-02-12T10:32:53Z 2026-02-12T10:32:53Z 2025 book 9781501779947 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/171493 eng Cornell University Press 10.1353/book.124488 10.1353/book.124488 05937e7b-c222-4680-9580-c09c5ce7a11e 9781501779947 336 open access |
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| title | Postal Intelligence |
| title_full | Postal Intelligence |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Postal Intelligence |
| title_short | Postal Intelligence |
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| topic | History / Medieval thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history |
| topic_facet | History / Medieval thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history |
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