A Cultural History of Early Modern English Cryptography Manuals (Paperback)

Introduction: Crises of expression in seventeenth-century cryptography manuals 1. The structures of seventeenth-century cryptography manuals 2. Textual precedents and seventeenth-century cryptography manuals 3. Occult communication, the new sciences, and cryptography 4. Cryptography and universal language schemes 5. Trade security and intelligence as capital 6. Materializing intelligence 7. Typography and multimodality in cryptography manuals 8. Conclusion: Logistikon: the fate of cryptography