Officers, Entrepreneurs, Career Migrants, and Diplomats: Military Entrepreneurs in the Early Modern World by Philippe Rogger, André Holenstein, Noah Businger, Daniel Kleis ISBN 9789004515659, 9789004700857, 9004515658, 9004700854 instant download

Officers, Entrepreneurs, Career Migrants, and Diplomats: Military Entrepreneurs in the Early Modern World by Philippe Rogger, André Holenstein, Noah Businger, Daniel Kleis ISBN 9789004515659, 9789004700857, 9004515658, 9004700854 instant download

"Money, money, and more money." For modern warlords, these were the three fundamental prerequisites for waging war. The transnational research presented here describes and explains how belligerent states relied on thriving markets where military entrepreneurs provided mercenaries, weapons, capital, credit, food, expertise, and other services.
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By offering a fresh and comprehensive examination of pre-state military entrepreneurship—its actors, structures, and economic logic—this book demonstrates how the logistical commercial relations of armies in the 17th and 18th centuries readily crossed territorial and religious boundaries.
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By outlining and elaborating the spheres of action of modern military entrepreneurs, this new transnational perspective transcends the limitations of national histories of the commercial approach to war.