الاستخبارات البريدية.. عائلة تاسيس وثورة الاتصالات في أوائل العصر الحديث في أوروبا

_Links the book "[Postal Intelligence](https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779923/postal-intelligence/#bookTabs=4)"_ The history of postal and government intelligence and places it in a broader context, along with printing technology and state power, within the context of the communications revolution in the early modern era. In the sixteenth century, postal services became central to internal governance and the state's foreign policies, It expanded the scope of government control and surveillance, and gave new control over the public sphere. Rachel Medora focuses her book on the Tassis family, whose members held official positions as postmasters for the Dukes of Milan, the Pope, the Kings of Spain, and the Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire. Drawing on administrative records and family correspondence, Medora traces the path of the Tasis family, its agents, and its rivals as their influence expanded from northern Italy across Europe. Postal Intelligence shows how postmasters and postmasters were central figures in diplomacy, trade, and journalism in the early modern era, and how their ultimate success depended on both administrative ingenuity and strategic ambiguity.