| Description |
1 online resource (368 pages) |
| Series |
History of Warfare |
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History of warfare.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements; List of Tables and Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Jeff Fynn-Paul, Marjolein 't Hart and Griet Vermeesch; part 1; The Medieval Origins of Military Entrepreneurialism; Chapter 1; Military Enterprise in Florence at the Time of the Black Death, 1349-1350; William Caferro; Chapter 2; 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; Chapter 3; The Military Enterpriser in the Thirty Years' War; David Parrott; Chapter 4 |
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Public Service and Private Profit: British Fiscal-Military Entrepreneurship Overseas, 1707-1712Aaron Graham; Chapter 5; Entrepreneurs and the Recruitment of the British Army in the War of American Independence, 1775-1783; Stephen Conway; Chapter 6; Suppliers to the Royal African Company and the Royal Navy in the Early Eighteenth Century; Helen Julia Paul; Chapter 7; Accounting for Power: Bookkeeping and the Rationalization of Dutch Naval Administration; Pepijn Brandon; Chapter 8 |
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The Prince as Military Entrepreneur? Why Smaller Saxon Territories Sent 'Holländische Regimenter' (Dutch Regiments) to the Dutch RepublicAndrea Thiele; Chapter 9; 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; Chapter 10; Agency Government in Louis XIV's France: The Military Treasurers of the Elite Forces; Guy Rowlands; Chapter 11; Centralized Funding of the Army in Spain: The Garrison Factoría in the Seventeenth Century |
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Carlos Álvarez-NogalChapter 12; In the Shadow of Power: Monopolist Entrepreneurs, the State and Spanish Military Victualling in the Eighteenth Century; Rafael Torres Sánchez; part 4; Ottoman Perspectives; Chapter 13; 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; Chapter 14; The Evolution of Ottoman Military Logistical Systems in the Later Eighteenth Century: The Rise of A New Class of Military Entrepreneur; Kahraman Şakul; Bibliography |
| Summary |
In War, Entrepreneurs and the State, leading authors on the topic of military logistics provide cutting-edge insights into the role of the entrepreneur in making war and building states in Europe and the Mediterranean between 1300 and 1800 |
| Notes |
Index of People, Places and Wars |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
War -- Economic aspects -- Europe -- History
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War -- Economic aspects -- Mediterranean Region -- History
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Businesspeople -- Europe -- History
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Businesspeople -- Mediterranean Region -- History
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HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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Businesspeople
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War -- Economic aspects
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Europe
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Mediterranean Region
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fynn-Paul, Jeff, Contributor
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| LC no. |
2014004893 |
| ISBN |
1306808561 |
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9781306808569 |
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9789004271302 |
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9004271309 |
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