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1 online resource (extent if ascertainable). |
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History of warfare,
1385-7827 ;
volume 97
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History of warfare ; v. 97.
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| 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. |
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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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Europe -- History, Military.
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Europe. |
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History, Military. |
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Electronic books.
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Military history.
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Fynn-Paul, Jeff.
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| ISBN |
9789004271302 (electronic book) |
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9004271309 (electronic book) |
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