War and economy. Rediscovering the eighteenth-century military entrepreneur

P. Brandon; M.C. 't Hart; Rafael Torres-Sánchez

doi:10.1080/00076791.2017.1379507

War and economy. Rediscovering the eighteenth-century military entrepreneur

P. Brandon
, M.C. 't Hart
, Rafael Torres-Sánchez

Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Abstract

The detrimental effects traditionally assigned to warfare in the development of pre-industrial economies have obscured the prominent role that military entrepreneurs played in economic development in this period. Historiography minimises the extent to which war and the concomitant strengthening of the central state provided a whole new range of opportunities for capital investment, a tendency that has been strengthened by the paradigm of Redlich’s ‘decline of the soldier-entrepreneur’ and the technological determinism of the debate on the Military Revolution among others. The aim of this introduction is to look into the background of this relative lack of interest and to reaffirm the mutual dependence of eighteenth-century state-formation and the business of war.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4-22
Number of pages	19
Journal	Business History
Volume	60
Issue number	1
Early online date	11 Oct 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2017.1379507
Publication status	Published - 2 Jan 2018

Bibliographical note

Special issue on: Business of war

Funding

Several of the papers collected in this Special Issue were first presented at the international workshop 'The Economic Impact of War 1648-1815', which took place at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study on 4-5 December 2014, and was co-funded by NIAS and Huygens-ING. Further discussion took place at a session with the same title at the XVIIth World Economic History Congress in Kyoto, 3-7 August 2015. Editorial work on the special issue and the work on the introduction were executed with the help of a grant from the Spanish government, ref. HAR 2015-64165-C2-1-P, and an NWO Veni grant, no. 275-53-015.

Funders	Funder number
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek	275-53-015

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth

Keywords

army supplies
eighteenth century
historiography
logistics
military revolution
mobilisation of resources
navy supplies
state finances
state formation
War
war loans
war-entrepreneur

Access to Document

10.1080/00076791.2017.1379507Licence: CC BY-NC

Persistent URL (handle)

Persistent link

Cite this

@article{f429e190f5a64574b3f1386c070e06af,

title = "War and economy. Rediscovering the eighteenth-century military entrepreneur",

abstract = "The detrimental effects traditionally assigned to warfare in the development of pre-industrial economies have obscured the prominent role that military entrepreneurs played in economic development in this period. Historiography minimises the extent to which war and the concomitant strengthening of the central state provided a whole new range of opportunities for capital investment, a tendency that has been strengthened by the paradigm of Redlich{\textquoteright}s {\textquoteleft}decline of the soldier-entrepreneur{\textquoteright} and the technological determinism of the debate on the Military Revolution among others. The aim of this introduction is to look into the background of this relative lack of interest and to reaffirm the mutual dependence of eighteenth-century state-formation and the business of war.",

keywords = "army supplies, eighteenth century, historiography, logistics, military revolution, mobilisation of resources, navy supplies, state finances, state formation, War, war loans, war-entrepreneur",

author = "P. Brandon and \{'t Hart\}, M.C. and Rafael Torres-S{\'a}nchez",

note = "Special issue on: Business of war ",

year = "2018",

month = jan,

day = "2",

doi = "10.1080/00076791.2017.1379507",

language = "English",

volume = "60",

pages = "4--22",

journal = "Business History",

issn = "0007-6791",

publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",

number = "1",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - War and economy. Rediscovering the eighteenth-century military entrepreneur

AU - Brandon, P.

AU - 't Hart, M.C.

AU - Torres-Sánchez, Rafael

N1 - Special issue on: Business of war

PY - 2018/1/2

Y1 - 2018/1/2

N2 - The detrimental effects traditionally assigned to warfare in the development of pre-industrial economies have obscured the prominent role that military entrepreneurs played in economic development in this period. Historiography minimises the extent to which war and the concomitant strengthening of the central state provided a whole new range of opportunities for capital investment, a tendency that has been strengthened by the paradigm of Redlich’s ‘decline of the soldier-entrepreneur’ and the technological determinism of the debate on the Military Revolution among others. The aim of this introduction is to look into the background of this relative lack of interest and to reaffirm the mutual dependence of eighteenth-century state-formation and the business of war.

AB - The detrimental effects traditionally assigned to warfare in the development of pre-industrial economies have obscured the prominent role that military entrepreneurs played in economic development in this period. Historiography minimises the extent to which war and the concomitant strengthening of the central state provided a whole new range of opportunities for capital investment, a tendency that has been strengthened by the paradigm of Redlich’s ‘decline of the soldier-entrepreneur’ and the technological determinism of the debate on the Military Revolution among others. The aim of this introduction is to look into the background of this relative lack of interest and to reaffirm the mutual dependence of eighteenth-century state-formation and the business of war.

KW - army supplies

KW - eighteenth century

KW - historiography

KW - logistics

KW - military revolution

KW - mobilisation of resources

KW - navy supplies

KW - state finances

KW - state formation

KW - War

KW - war loans

KW - war-entrepreneur

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85031128364

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85031128364#tab=citedBy

U2 - 10.1080/00076791.2017.1379507

DO - 10.1080/00076791.2017.1379507

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85031128364

SN - 0007-6791

VL - 60

SP - 4

EP - 22

JO - Business History

JF - Business History

IS - 1

ER -

War and economy. Rediscovering the eighteenth-century military entrepreneur

Abstract

Bibliographical note

Funding

UN SDGs

Keywords

Access to Document

Persistent URL (handle)

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this