War, capital, and the Dutch state (1588-1795) /

War, capital, and the Dutch state (1588-1795) / / by Pepijn Brandon.

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Superior document:Historical materialism book series, volume 101
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Brandon, Pepijn,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2015]
2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Historical materialism book series ; volume 101.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (461 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • INTRODUCTION. Dutch war-making and state-making : three solutions to a riddle
  • Typologies of the early modern state form
  • The Dutch cycle of accumulation
  • The federal-brokerage state and its "historic bloc"
  • Content and structure of the book
  • 1. THE MAKING OF THE FEDERAL-BROKERAGE STATE. 1.1. The Dutch Revolt and the establishment of the state
  • 1.2. Types of brokerage. 1) Merchant warriors
  • 1.3. Types of brokerage. 2) Merchants as administrators
  • 1.4. Types of brokerage. 3) Financial intermediaries in troop payments
  • 1.5. Political and ideological foundations of the federal-brokerage state
  • Conclusions
  • 2. MERCHANT COMPANIES, NAVAL POWER, AND TRADE PROTECTION. 2.1. The naval revolution and the challenge to Dutch trade
  • 2.2. A unified state company for colonial trade?
  • 2.3. The VOC and the navy from symbiosis to division of labour
  • 2.4. The WIC between private trade and state protection
  • 2.5. European commercial directorates as protection lobbies
  • 2.6. Protection costs and merchant interests
  • Conclusions
  • 3. PRODUCTION, SUPPLY, AND LABOUR RELATIONS AT THE NAVAL SHIPYARDS. 3.1. Capitalist rationality, accounting, and the naval revolution
  • 3.2. Personal networks and market practices
  • 3.3. Different products, different systems of supply : victuals, wood, smaller supplies
  • 3.4. Naval shipyards as centres of production
  • 3.5. Shipyards and their workforce
  • 3.6. Admiralty boards and the labour market
  • 3.7. Combination, coordination, and control
  • 3.8. Of time, theft, and chips
  • 3.9. Neptune's trident and Athena's gifts
  • Conclusions
  • 4. TROOP PAYMENTS, MILITARY SOLICITING, AND THE WORLD OF FINANCE. 4.1. From disorder to regulation
  • 4.2. A golden age of military soliciting
  • 4.3. Two careers in military finance
  • 4.4. The daily affairs of a financial middleman
  • 4.5. Networks of credit and influence
  • 4.6. Military soliciting in the age of financialisation
  • Conclusions
  • 5. THE STRUCTURAL CRISIS OF THE FEDERAL-BROKERAGE STATE. 5.1. The rise and limits of reform agendas
  • 5.2. Warring companies and the debate over free trade
  • 5.3. Admiralty boards at the centre of the storm
  • 5.4. From citizens' militias to the Batavian Legion
  • 5.5. The afterlife of the federal-brokerage state
  • Conclusions
  • CONCLUSION.
  • Annex 1. Holland members of the Amsterdam Admiralty Board
  • Sources
  • Annex 2. Zeeland members of the Zeeland Admiralty Board
  • Sources
  • Annex 3. Income and expenditure of the Amsterdam Admiralty : steps from figures in "borderel" to reconstruction.

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