Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Jeff Fynn-Paul , Marjolein ’t Hart and Griet Vermeesch -- 1. Military Enterprise in Florence at the Time of the Black Death, 1349–1350 / William Caferro -- 2. Military Entrepreneurs in the Crown of Aragon during the Castilian–Aragonese War, 1356–1375 / Jeff Fynn-Paul -- 3. The Military Enterpriser in the Thirty Years’ War / David Parrott -- 4. Public Service and Private Profit / Aaron Graham -- 5. Entrepreneurs and the Recruitment of the British Army in the War of American Independence, 1775–1783 / Stephen Conway -- 6. Suppliers to the Royal African Company and the Royal Navy in the Early Eighteenth Century / Helen Julia Paul -- 7. Accounting for Power / Pepijn Brandon -- 8. The Prince as Military Entrepreneur? / Andrea Thiele -- 9. The Grip of the State? / Thomas Goossens -- 10. Agency Government in Louis XIV’s France / Guy Rowlands -- 11. Centralized Funding of the Army in Spain / Carlos Álvarez-Nogal -- 12. In the Shadow of Power / Rafael Torres Sánchez -- 13. Rewarding Success in Military Enterprise / Rhoads Murphey -- 14. The Evolution of Ottoman Military Logistical Systems in the Later Eighteenth Century / Kahraman Şakul -- Bibliography / Jeff Fynn-Paul -- Index / Jeff Fynn-Paul.

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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. Contributors are: Carlos Álvarez-Nogal, Pepijn Brandon, William Caferro, Stephen Conway, Thomas Goossens, Aaron Graham, Rhoads Murphey, David Parrott, Helen Paul, Guy Rowlands, Kahraman Şakul, Marjolein 't Hart, Andrea Thiele, and Rafael Torres Sánchez.