Business of War - Military Enterprise and Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe

Informationen zum Autor David Parrott is a Fellow and Lecturer at New College, University of Oxford. His previous books include Richelieu's Army: War, Government and Society in France, 1624–1642 (Cambridge, 2001). Klappentext This book offers a substantial reconsideration of early modern warfare and its relationship to the power of the state. Zusammenfassung An important re-evaluation of early modern warfare and its relationship to the power of the state. David Parrott reveals how far states devolved to private contractors the raising and equipping of troops! the construction and management of navies! the manufacture and distribution of weapons and even the conduct of war. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Foundations and Expansion: 1. Military resources for hire, 1450-1560; 2. The expansion of military enterprise, 1560-1620; 3. Diversity and adaptation: military enterprise during the Thirty Years' War; Part II. Operations and Structures: 4. The military contractor at war; 5. The business of war; 6. Continuity, transformation and rhetoric in European warfare after 1650; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: David Parrott, David (University of Oxford) Parrott, Parrott David
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.03.2012
• EAN: 9780521514835
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51483-5
• No. of pages: 448
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, military history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare)