The contractor state and its implications, 1659-1815 / eds., Richard Harding, Sergio Solbes Ferri.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Contractor State Group International Congress, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Harding, Richard, coord.

Solbes Ferri, Sergio, coord.

e-libro, Corp.

Conference Name:

Contractor State Group International Congress (4 : 2011 : Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)

Series:

Monografia cientifica.

Monografia cientifica

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Finanza publica--Espana.

Finance, Public--Spain.

Finance, Public.

Local Subjects:

Finanza publica--Espana.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Place of Publication:

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria : Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

The Contractor State and Its Implications, 1659-1815; Legal page; Summary; Introduction; 1. Supplying the belligerent countries. Transnational trading networks during the Napoleonic Wars; 2. Trading with the enemy. British private trade and the supply of arms to India, c. 1750-1820; 3. Global power, local connections: The Dutch admiralties and their supply networks; 4. Provisioning the Combined Army in Germany, 1758-1762: Who Benefited?; 5. Victualling Louis XV's armies. The Munitionnaire des Vivres de Flandreset d'Allemagne and the military supply system

6. Who spends the Spanish Inquisition's Money?7. Buying cannons outside: when, why, how many? The supplying of foreign iron cannons for the Spanish Navy in the eighteenth century; 8. Contractors, Warships of the Royal Navy and Sea Power, 1739-1748; 9. War, Government and the Market: The Direction of the Debate on the British Contractor State, c. 1740-1815; 10. Contracts and the Role of the State. Portuguese military provisions supply systemin the early nineteenth century1

11. A Global Perspective for the Comprehension of Fiscal State Formation across Eurasia from the Rise of Venice to the Opium War12. The Royal African Company's Contractors; 13. Buying supplies from your enemy or how the French navy stocked up with products from the North in the eighteenth century; 14. Contracting and Accounting: Spanish Army Expenditure in Wardrobe and the General Treasury Accounts in Eighteenth Century; 15. The Transformation of Tokugawa Military Regime in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century in Japan: With Special Reference to Yoshimune's Reformation

16. Contractor State and Mercantilism. The Spanish-Navy Hemp, Rigging and Sailcloth Supply Policy in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

84-15424-44-2

84-15424-57-4

OCLC:

923010519