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Secret Service under Pitt's Administrations, 1792–1806
Author(s) -
Sparrow Elizabeth
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.12
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1468-229X
pISSN - 0018-2648
DOI - 10.1111/1468-229x.00074
Subject(s) - service (business) , theme (computing) , period (music) , style (visual arts) , espionage , council of ministers , alien , law , political science , history , politics , art , business , economy , economics , aesthetics , computer science , archaeology , european union , citizenship , operating system , economic policy
The article has a double theme: first, that Louis XVI's ex‐ministers and police officers exercised an important influence on Pitt and his ministers, an influence that encouraged the introduction of both a French‐style secret police within Britain, and a foreign secret service principally directed against republican governments in France; second, that a study of the resulting espionage is of crucial importance for an understanding of the history of the period. In addition this article elaborates and corrects my previous assessment of the alien office.[Note 2. Elizabeth Sparrow, ‘The Alien Office, 1792–1806’, Historical Journal, 33 ...]