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Daniel Defoe, the writer of 'Robinson Crusoe' and 'Moll Flanders', was a spy in Scotland in the early 1700s, sending information to England, to help England end Scottish independence, and form a parliamentary union.
The spy craft he used was possibly the first known example of deploying surveillance, espionage and propaganda to achieve political outcomes.
Lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne, where he researches seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature and intellectual history.
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Daniel Defoe, the writer of 'Robinson Crusoe' and 'Moll Flanders', was a spy in Scotland in the early 1700s, sending information to England, to help England end Scottish independence, and form a parliamentary union.
The spy craft he used was possibly the first known example of deploying surveillance, espionage and propaganda to achieve political outcomes.
Lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne, where he researches seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature and intellectual history.

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