Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe

Citation:

Snyder, Jon R. 2009. Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe. Berkeley: University of California Press, 280.
Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe

Abstract:

Not empty silence : the age of dissimulation -- Taking one's distance : civil and moral dissimulation -- Confidence games : dissimulation at court -- The government of designs : dissimulation and reason of state -- The writing on the walls .

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-271) and index.HOLLIS no. 012071105

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