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Podcast: 1869, the Cornell University Press PodcastEpisode: 1869, Ep. 161 with Rachel Midura, author of Postal IntelligencePub date: 2025-03-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDownload and read the FREE open access ebook edition of Postal Intelligence here:
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Rachel Midura is Assistant Professor of Early Modern European and Digital History at Virginia Tech. She researches the history of intelligence, travel, and statecraft in the information age of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Rachel discusses how early modern postal services became central to domestic governance and foreign policy enterprises; how they extended government reach and surveillance; and the pivotal role that the Tassis family played in this history as official postmasters to the dukes of Milan, the pope, Spanish kings, and Holy Roman emperors.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Cornell University Press, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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Rachel Midura is Assistant Professor of Early Modern European and Digital History at Virginia Tech. She researches the history of intelligence, travel, and statecraft in the information age of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Rachel discusses how early modern postal services became central to domestic governance and foreign policy enterprises; how they extended government reach and surveillance; and the pivotal role that the Tassis family played in this history as official postmasters to the dukes of Milan, the pope, Spanish kings, and Holy Roman emperors.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Cornell University Press, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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