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Author: Christopher R. Moran ,
Christopher J. Murphy ,
Richard J. Aldrich ,
Christopher Baxter
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.655kg
ISBN: 9780748646272
ISBN 10: 0748646272
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 31 March 2013
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
A much-needed examination of the extensive and rapidly growing historiography of intelligence studies. It addresses the difficulties posed by official secrecy, how real world developments influenced historiography, and the recent trend toward state-sanctioned histories. Given the diversity of the literature examined, it is fitting that the contributors range from scholars to journalists and intelligence professionals ... Summing Up: Recommended. --Choice P. C. Kennedy, York College of Pennsylvania
A fascinating collection of perspectives that chronicles the development of intelligence studies during the past 30 years from a 'missing dimension' of modern history to a mature discipline fully able to hold its own with its scholarly forbears.--David Robarge, CIA Chief Historian A much-needed examination of the extensive and rapidly growing historiography of intelligence studies. It addresses the difficulties posed by official secrecy, how real world developments influenced historiography, and the recent trend toward state-sanctioned histories. Given the diversity of the literature examined, it is fitting that the contributors range from scholars to journalists and intelligence professionals ... Summing Up: Recommended.--Choice ""P. C. Kennedy, York College of Pennsylvania""
"A fascinating collection of perspectives that chronicles the development of intelligence studies during the past 30 years from a 'missing dimension' of modern history to a mature discipline fully able to hold its own with its scholarly forbears.--David Robarge, CIA Chief Historian A much-needed examination of the extensive and rapidly growing historiography of intelligence studies. It addresses the difficulties posed by official secrecy, how real world developments influenced historiography, and the recent trend toward state-sanctioned histories. Given the diversity of the literature examined, it is fitting that the contributors range from scholars to journalists and intelligence professionals ... Summing Up: Recommended.--Choice ""P. C. Kennedy, York College of Pennsylvania"""
"A much-needed examination of the extensive and rapidly growing historiography of intelligence studies. It addresses the difficulties posed by official secrecy, how real world developments influenced historiography, and the recent trend toward state-sanctioned histories. Given the diversity of the literature examined, it is fitting that the contributors range from scholars to journalists and intelligence professionals ... Summing Up: Recommended. --Choice ""P. C. Kennedy, York College of Pennsylvania"""
Author Information
Christopher R. Moran is Assistant Professor of US National Security in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. Christopher J. Murphy is Lecturer in Intelligence in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences at the University of Salford, and Programme Leader for the MA in Intelligence and Security Studies.
