The Business of War: Military Enterprise and Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe

by David Parrott

• ISBN13: 9780521735582
• ISBN10: 0521735580
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-09
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book offers a substantial reconsideration of early modern warfare and its relationship to the power of the state.

Author Biography

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). Cover Illustration: Ferdinand Hodler, The Retreat from Marignano, central fresco, c. 1900, Inventory number LM-41994. Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Zrich. Photo: courtesy Landesmuseum.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. viii
List of maps	p. xii
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
List of abbreviations	p. xvi
Currencies	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Foundations and expansion	p. 25
Military resources for hire, 1450-1560	p. 27
The expansion of military enterprise, 1560-1620	p. 71
Diversity and adaptation: military enterprise during the Thirty Years War	p. 101
Operations and structures	p. 137
The military contractor at war	p. 139
The business of war	p. 196
Continuity, transformation and rhetoric in European warfare after 1650	p. 260
Conclusion	p. 307
Notes	p. 328
Bibliography	p. 393
Index	p. 419
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