War, entrepreneurs, and the state in Europe and the Mediterranean, 1300-1800 / edited by Jeff Fynn-Paul.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fynn-Paul, Jeff, editor.

Series:

History of warfare ; v. 97.

History of warfare, 1385-7827 ; volume 97

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Businesspeople.

History.

War--Economic aspects.

History, Military.

Europe--History, Military.

Europe.

Mediterranean Region--History, Military.

Mediterranean Region.

War--Economic aspects--Europe--History.

War.

War--Economic aspects--Mediterranean Region--History.

Businesspeople--Europe--History.

Businesspeople--Mediterranean Region--History.

Europe--Politics and government--476-1492.

Politics and government.

Europe--Politics and government--1492-1648.

Europe--Politics and government--1648-1789.

Mediterranean Region--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xii, 356 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

Summary:

In War, Entrepreneurs, and the State, Jeff Fynn-Paul (Leiden) assembles an internationally acclaimed selection of authors to push forward the debate on the role of entrepreneurs in making war and building states in Europe and the Ottoman Empire. Topics covered include logistics supply, recruitment, and the finance of war: the chapters have been carefully commissioned with an eye toward complementary. In an introduction co-written with Marjolein Hart and Griet Vermeesch, Fynn-Paul challenges existing discourse of military entrepreneurialism. A new benchmarks is proposed did states choose to work with entrepreneurs or to restrict their activities and subvert the market? From the introduction and the individual chapters, a new more expansive vision of the military entrepreneur emerges. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Entrepreneurs, military supply, and state formation in the late Medieval and early modern periods : new directions / Jeff Fynn-Paul, Marjolein 't Hart and Griet Vermeesch

Part 1. The medieval origins of military entrepreneurialism

Military enterprise in Florence at the time of the Black Death, 1349-1350 / William Caferro

Military entrepreneurs in the Crown of Aragon during the Castilian-Aragonese War, 1356-1375 / Jeff Fynn-Paul

Part 2. Early modern evolution : varieties of entrepreneurial freedom

The military enterpriser in the Thirty Years' War / David Parrott

Public service and private profit : British fiscal-military entrepreneurship overseas, 1707-1712 / Aaron Graham

Entrepreneurs and the recruitment of the British Army in the War of American Independence, 1775-1783 / Stephen Conway

Suppliers to the Royal African Company and the Royal Navy in the early eighteenth century / Helen Julia Paul

Accounting for power : bookkeeping and the rationalization of Dutch naval administration / Pepijn Brandon

The prince as a military entrepreneur? Why smaller Saxon territories sent "Hollandische Regimenter" (Dutch regiments) to the Dutch Republic / Andrea Thiele

The grip of the state? Government control over provision of the army in the Austrian Netherlands, 1725-1744 / Thomas Goossens

Part 3. Early modern evolution : controlling and circumventing the entrepreneur

Agency government in Louis XIV's France : the military treasurers of the elite forces / Guy Rowlands

Centralized funding of the army in Spain : the Garrison Factoria in the seventeenth century / Carlos Alvarez-Nogal

In the shadow of power : monopolist entrepreneurs, the state and Spanish military victualling in the eighteenth century / Rafael Torres Sanchez

Part 4. Ottoman perspectives

Rewarding success in military enterprise : forms used for the incentivizing of commanders and their troops in the Ottoman military system of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Rhoads Murphey

The evolution of Ottoman military logistical systems in the later eighteenth century : the rise of a new class of military entrepreneur / Kahraman Sakul.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004243644

900424364X

9004271309

9789004271302

OCLC:

872222291