In this major study, the history of the French and British trading empires in the early modern Mediterranean is used as a setting to test a new approach to the

Product Description: This book explores the limits of institutional knowledge. What does an empire know and how does it know it? How does its own culture, gener

At the intersection of the history of knowledge and science, of European trade empires and the Mediterranean, this major empirical study presents a new method f

Major Kelley chooses three empires with which to compare our current intelligence circumstances. Each of these faced challenges in understanding peoples; Rome i

Exposes the fallacy that an increased degree of socio-cultural understanding leads to a greater chance of success in counterinsurgency operations.