Volume 4, Number 10 · June 17, 1965
Habsburg Espionage
By J.P. Kenyon
The Secret Diplomacy of the Habsburgs, 1598-1625
by Charles Howard Carter
Columbia, 360 pp., $7.50
In its inception this book was apparently intended to be no more than a detailed examination of Spanish diplomacy and espionage in the London of King James I. However, so complex were the foreign relations of the European states in the early seventeeth century that Professor Carter's brilliant elucidation of the background to his subject has outgrown the subject itself. The fortunate result is a work which is much more valuable and has deeper implications than its author may at first have intended.
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