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Overview“Money, money, and more money.” In the eyes of early modern warlords, these were the three essential prerequisites for waging war. The transnational studies presented here describe and explain how belligerent powers did indeed rely on thriving markets where military entrepreneurs provided mercenaries, weapons, money, credit, food, expertise, and other services. In a fresh and comprehensive examination of pre-national military entrepreneurship – its actors, structures and economic logic – this volume shows how readily business relationships for supplying armies in the 17th and 18th centuries crossed territorial and confessional boundaries. By outlining and explicating early modern military entrepreneurial fields of action, this new transnational perspective transcends the limits of national historical approaches to the business of war. Contributors are Astrid Ackermann, John Condren, Jasmina Cornut, Michael Depreter, Sébastien Dupuis, Marian Füssel, Julien Grand, André Holenstein, Katrin Keller, Michael Paul Martoccio, Tim Neu, David Parrott, Alexander Querengässer, Philippe Rogger, Guy Rowlands, Benjamin Ryser, Regula Schmid, and Peter H. Wilson. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Philippe Rogger , André HolensteinPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 145 Weight: 1.032kg ISBN: 9789004515659ISBN 10: 9004515658 Pages: 532 Publication Date: 22 August 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Mobilising Resources for War: Early Modern Military Entrepreneurs and Their Transnational Fields of Action Philippe Rogger, André Holenstein PART 1: Chances and Challenges: Actors and Forms of the Enterprise SECTION: Military and Non-Military Entrepreneurs 1 Logistics, Politics, and War: The Military Entrepreneur Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar and Supplying the Army from the Swiss Confederation in the Thirty Years’ War Astrid Ackermann 2 Feeding Breisach: Hans Ludwig von Erlach’s Fortress Management and Military Enterprise in the Thirty Years’ War Philippe Rogger 3 “Quelques malhonêtes particuliers”? Army Suppliers and War Commissaries as Profiteers of the Seven Years’ War Marian Füssel 4 Intergenerationality as a Challenge: The Swiss Guard Company of the Erlach Family, 1639–1770 Benjamin Ryser 5 Beyond Gender Boundaries: Women’s Involvement in Military Careers in the Swiss Foreign Service (18th–19th Centuries) Jasmina Cornut SECTION: Public-Private Partnership, Feudal Patterns, and the Relativity of ‘State’ and ‘Private’ 6 Military Enterprise and Civil War: Private Armies and Warfare in France around the Fronde, 1641–52 David Parrott 7 Merchant of Death: Maximilien Titon (1632–1711) and the Supply of Arms in Louis XIV’s France Guy Rowlands 8 The Officer as Military Entrepreneur in Miles Perpetuus: Examples from the Armies of the Empire 1650–1800 Alexander Querengässer PART 2: Transnational Fields of Action SECTION: Networks, Hubs, Markets 9 A Polity Full of Contractors: The Swiss Cantons and Their Business of War (15th to 19th Centuries) André Holenstein and Philippe Rogger 10 The Republic of Geneva as a Fiscal-Military Hub, 1685–1709: Finance, Information, and Espionage John Condren 11 At the Crossroads of Population and Capital: Recruiting in Geneva for the French Service under the Ancien Régime Sébastien Dupuis 12 Foreign Military Labour in Early Modern Europe Peter H. Wilson 13 Civilian Trade and War Business in the Early Modern Mediterranean The Case of Genoese Military Transporters in the War of Spanish Succession Michael Paul Martoccio 14 Military Money Men: The Toils of Entanglement and the Business Model of Harley & Drummond, Remittance Contractors Tim Neu SECTION: Diplomacy and Patronage 15 From Private Entrepreneurship to State Monopoly Contracting Swiss Soldiers for Dutch Service under Ancien Régime Fiscal-Military Practices (1693–1829) Michael Depreter 16 A Career Before the Career? On the Emergence of the ‘Créature’ Peter Stuppa Katrin Keller 17 The Besenval Family: Constants and Changes in Its Military Entrepreneurial Activities (1650–1800) Julien Grand Comment: The Sinew of War Regula Schmid IndexReviewsAuthor InformationPhilippe Rogger, Dr (2011), is Senior Scientist at the University of Bern. He has published on mercenary trade, elite formation, diplomacy and political unrest in early modern Switzerland, including Geld, Krieg und Macht: Pensionsherren, Söldner und eidgenössische Politik in den Mailänderkriegen, 1494-1516 (2015). André Holenstein, Dr (1989), was Professor of Older Swiss History and Comparative Regional History at the University of Bern. His research interests include collective memory and historical thinking, the cultural history of economic knowledge, administrative history, constitutional history, social history, and transnationality in Swiss history. He is the author of Mitten in Europa: Verflechtung und Abgrenzung in der Schweizer Geschichte (2014). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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