War, entrepreneurs, and the state in europe and the mediterranean, 1300 - 1800

Bibliographische Detailangaben
Weitere Verfasser: Fynn-Paul, Jeff (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2014
Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel:History of warfare 97
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:History of warfare
Schlagworte:War Businesspeople Europa Mittelmeerraum Krieg Kriegswirtschaft Geschichte 1300-1800 Unternehmer
Umfang:XII, 356 S.
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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 VermeeschPart 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.