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War, Entrepreneurs, and the State in Europe and the Mediterranean, 1300-1800

By Jeff Fynn-Paul

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2014
ISBN
900424364X, 9789004243644
ISSN
1385-7827
Google Books ID
4I6fAwAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4169342 bytes)
Series
History of Warfare 97
Pages
xii+356\369
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-10-01 07:14:16
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Description

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, and the finance of war. Chapters have been carefully commissioned with an eye towards complementarity. In an introduction co-written with Marjolein ‘t Hart and Griet Vermeesch, Fynn-Paul challenges existing discourses of military entrepreneurialism. A new benchmark is proposed: did states choose to work with entrepreneurs, or to restrict their activities and subvert the market? From the introduction and the individual chapters, a new more expansive vision of the military entrepreneur emerges.

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