War, entrepreneurs, and the state in Europe and the Mediterranean, 1300-1800 / / edited by Jeff Fynn-Pa.

• Superior document: History of Warfare, Volume 97
• TeilnehmendeR: Fynn-Paul, Jeff,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: History of warfare ; Volume 97.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In War, Entrepreneurs, and the State , Jeff Fynn-Paul (Leiden) assembles an internationally acclaimed selection of authors to push forward the debate on the role of entrepreneurs in making war and building states in Europe and the Ottoman Empire. Topics covered include logistics, supply, recruitment...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction / Jeff Fynn-Paul , Marjolein ’t Hart and Griet Vermeesch
• 1. Military Enterprise in Florence at the Time of the Black Death, 1349–1350 / William Caferro
• 2. Military Entrepreneurs in the Crown of Aragon during the Castilian–Aragonese War, 1356–1375 / Jeff Fynn-Paul
• 3. The Military Enterpriser in the Thirty Years’ War / David Parrott
• 4. Public Service and Private Profit / Aaron Graham
• 5. Entrepreneurs and the Recruitment of the British Army in the War of American Independence, 1775–1783 / Stephen Conway
• 6. Suppliers to the Royal African Company and the Royal Navy in the Early Eighteenth Century / Helen Julia Paul
• 7. Accounting for Power / Pepijn Brandon
• 8. The Prince as Military Entrepreneur? / Andrea Thiele
• 9. The Grip of the State? / Thomas Goossens
• 10. Agency Government in Louis XIV’s France / Guy Rowlands
• 11. Centralized Funding of the Army in Spain / Carlos Álvarez-Nogal
• 12. In the Shadow of Power / Rafael Torres Sánchez
• 13. Rewarding Success in Military Enterprise / Rhoads Murphey
• 14. The Evolution of Ottoman Military Logistical Systems in the Later Eighteenth Century / Kahraman Şakul
• Bibliography / Jeff Fynn-Paul
• Index / Jeff Fynn-Paul.