Officers, Entrepreneurs, Career Migrants, and Diplomats

Military Entrepreneurs in the Early Modern World
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-51565-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 145, 576 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: History of Warfare

“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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rogger, Philippe

Holenstein, André

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Philippe 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).