A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End Scottish Independence
Language: English
Published by Yale University Press, 2026
- Hardcover
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Seller: Hopkins Books, Nashua, NH, U.S.A.Hopkins Books
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First US hardcover edition, with dust jacket, published by Yale University Press, 2026. In-depth history of how Daniel Defoe helped to sabotage the Scottish independence movement from the inside. 416 pages, with Index, Notes, illustrations and maps through the text, 6" x 9-1/2". Dust jacket is not price clipped. Not a remainder, not a library discard copy. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Edges of the text block are clean, binding is tight and square. Attached are some photos of the copy we have in our inventory.
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- Title
- A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End Scottish Independence
- Author
- Mierowsky, Marc
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0300260164
- ISBN 13
- 9780300260168
- Item weight
- 654 grams
- Dimensions
- 16.2 centimeters width by 23.65 centimeters height by 3.99 centimeters depth
- Seller catalogs
- England, Espionage, History, Scotland
In 1706, Edinburgh was on the brink of a popular uprising. Men and women took to the streets to protest the planned union with England, fearing the end of Scottish sovereignty. But unbeknownst to the mob, a spy was in their midst—the English writer Daniel Defoe, now bankrupt and thrice pilloried, had turned a government agent.
Marc Mierowsky tells the dramatic story of Defoe and his fellow spies as they sabotaged the Scottish independence movement from the inside. Together they disseminated propaganda and built a network of operatives from London to the upper Highlands, providing the English government with up-to-the-minute intelligence and monitoring its adversaries’ every move.
Through the lives of Defoe and his ring, their handlers, and opponents, Mierowsky guides us through this shadowy underworld of espionage and propaganda—revealing a disturbing and distinctly modern political campaign.
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