Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746: 18 (The Northern World, 18) - Tapa dura

Network North : Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This volume deals with the development, implementation and maintenance of Scottish networks in Northern Europe from c.1600-1746. The book contains nine chapters divided into three parts of original and innovative archival reseach. After an introduction providing a theoretical overview of the subject, the first section focusses on the associations of kith and kin, place and nation and confessional loyalty tested in the numerous case studies throughout the book.Section two provides an analysis of Scottish networks in an economic context providing both quantitative and qualitative evidence to describe their success and failures in a variety of situations and locations. The final section provides three meticulously researched case studies of subversive networks including an espionage network operating in Poland on behalf of Sweden, the confessional network of the irenicist John Durie and rounded off with a review of the Jacobite network stretching across Russia, Sweden, Prussia and Rome. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9789004146648

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