The Rise of the Military Entrepreneur : : War, Diplomacy, and Knowledge in Habsburg Europe /

The Rise of the Military Entrepreneur : : War, Diplomacy, and Knowledge in Habsburg Europe / / Suzanne Sutherland.

The Rise of the Military Entrepreneur explores how a new kind of international military figure emerged from, and exploited, the seventeenth century's momentous political, military, commercial, and scientific changes. In the era of the Thirty Years' War, these figures operated on a new scal...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Sutherland, Suzanne,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (276 p.) :; 10 b&w halftones, 4 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Terms
  • Introduction: A Warrior’s Life
  • 1. The Order of War
  • 2. The Generation of White Mountain
  • 3. The Making of an Early Modern Military Entrepreneur
  • 4. From Battlefield to Court
  • 5. A Loyal Servant
  • 6. Victory at Last
  • Epilogue: The Generation of 1683
  • Appendix A: Montecuccoli’s List of Books
  • Appendix B: Earliest Publications of Montecuccoli’s Works
  • Notes
  • Sources
  • Index

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