Officers, Entrepreneurs, Career Migrants, and Diplomats : Military Entrepreneurs in the Early Modern World / / edited by Philippe Rogger and André Holenstein |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2024 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (537 pages) |
Disciplina | 949.501 |
Collana |
Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2024
History of Warfare |
Soggetto topico |
War - History
History |
ISBN |
9789004700857
9004700854 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Mobilising Resources for War: Early Modern Military Entrepreneurs and Their Transnational Fields of Action -- Philippe Rogger, André Holenstein -- PART 1: Chances and Challenges: Actors and Forms of the Enterprise -- SECTION: Military and Non-Military Entrepreneurs -- 1 Logistics, Politics, and War: The Military Entrepreneur Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar and Supplying the Army from the Swiss Confederation in the Thirty Years' War -- Astrid Ackermann -- 2 Feeding Breisach: Hans Ludwig von Erlach's Fortress Management and Military Enterprise in the Thirty Years' War -- Philippe Rogger -- 3 " Quelques malhonêtes particuliers "? Army Suppliers and War Commissaries as Profiteers of the Seven Years' War -- Marian Füssel -- 4 Intergenerationality as a Challenge: The Swiss Guard Company of the Erlach Family, 1639–1770 -- Benjamin Ryser -- 5 Beyond Gender Boundaries: Women's Involvement in Military Careers in the Swiss Foreign Service (18th–19th Centuries) -- Jasmina Cornut -- SECTION: Public-Private Partnership, Feudal Patterns, and the Relativity of ‘State' and ‘Private' -- 6 Military Enterprise and Civil War: Private Armies and Warfare in France around the Fronde , 1641–52 -- David Parrott -- 7 Merchant of Death: Maximilien Titon (1632–1711) and the Supply of Arms in Louis XIV's France -- Guy Rowlands -- 8 The Officer as Military Entrepreneur in Miles Perpetuus : Examples from the Armies of the Empire 1650–1800 -- Alexander Querengässer -- PART 2: Transnational Fields of Action -- SECTION: Networks, Hubs, Markets -- 9 A Polity Full of Contractors: The Swiss Cantons and Their Business of War (15th to 19th Centuries) -- André Holenstein and Philippe Rogger -- 10 The Republic of Geneva as a Fiscal-Military Hub, 1685–1709: Finance, Information, and Espionage -- John Condren -- 11 At the Crossroads of Population and Capital: Recruiting in Geneva for the French Service under the Ancien Régime -- Sébastien Dupuis -- 12 Foreign Military Labour in Early Modern Europe -- Peter H. Wilson -- 13 Civilian Trade and War Business in the Early Modern Mediterranean -- The Case of Genoese Military Transporters in the War of Spanish Succession -- Michael Paul Martoccio -- 14 Military Money Men: The Toils of Entanglement and the Business Model of Harley & Drummond, Remittance Contractors -- Tim Neu -- SECTION: Diplomacy and Patronage -- 15 From Private Entrepreneurship to State Monopoly -- Contracting Swiss Soldiers for Dutch Service under Ancien Régime Fiscal-Military Practices (1693–1829) -- Michael Depreter -- 16 A Career Before the Career? On the Emergence of the ‘ Créature ' Peter Stuppa -- Katrin Keller -- 17 The Besenval Family: Constants and Changes in Its Military Entrepreneurial Activities (1650–1800) -- Julien Grand -- Comment: The Sinew of War -- Regula Schmid -- Index. |
Altri titoli varianti | Military Entrepreneurs in the Early Modern World |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910907059203321 |
Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2024 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The republican alternative : the Netherlands and Switzerland compared / / editors, André Holenstein, Thomas Maissen, Maarten Prak |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Amsterdam] : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 330 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HolensteinAndré
MaissenThomas <1962-> PrakMaarten Roy <1955-> |
Soggetto topico |
Representative government and representation - Netherlands
Representative government and representation - Switzerland Republicanism - Netherlands - History Republicanism - Switzerland - History |
ISBN |
1-281-98838-3
9786611988388 90-485-0849-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : the Dutch and Swiss republics compared / André Holenstein, Thomas Maissen, and Maarten Prak -- 'The league of the discordant members, ' or, How the old Swiss confederation operated and how it managed to survive for so long / Andreas Würgler -- Challenges for the republic : coordination and loyalty in the Dutch republic / Maarten Prak -- Bridging the gap : confessionalisation in Switzerland / Francisca Loetz -- Was the Dutch republic a Calvinist community? The state, the confessions and culture in the early modern Netherlands / Willem Frijhoff -- Inventing the sovereign republic : imperial structures, French challenges, Dutch models and the early modern Swiss confederation / Thomas Maissen -- Turning Swiss? Discord in the Dutch debates / Martin van Gelderen -- The content, form and function of Swiss and Dutch images of history / Olaf Mörke -- Republican art? Dutch and Swiss art and art-production compared / Michael North -- The Dassier workshop in Geneva and the Netherlands : two Calvinist republics expressed in medallic form, 1695-1748 / William Eisler -- Exporting mercenaries, money and Mennonites : a Swiss diplomatic mission to The Hague, 1710-1715 / Stefan Altorfer-Ong -- Republican risks : commerce and agriculture in the Dutch republic / Ida Nijenhuis -- Republican futures : the image of Holland in 18th-century Swiss reform discourse / Béla Kapossy -- Radical elements and attempted revolutions in the late-18th-century republics / Marc Lerner -- Debating the republic : a conference report / Daniel Schläppi. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996203935303316 |
[Amsterdam] : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Scholars in action : the practice of knowledge and the figure of the savant in the 18th century / / edited by André Holenstein, Hubert Steinke, and Martin Stuber |
Autore | Holenstein André |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Mass., : Brill, c2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (962 p.) |
Disciplina | 001.209409/033 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HolensteinAndré
SteinkeHubert StuberMartin |
Collana |
History of Science and Medicine Library
Scientific and Learned Cultures and their Institutions |
Soggetto topico |
Learning and scholarship - Europe - History - 18th century
Scholars - Europe - History - 18th century Knowledge, Theory of - History - 18th century |
ISBN | 90-04-24391-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Practices of Knowledge and the Figure of the Scholar in the Eighteenth Century / André Holenstein , Hubert Steinke and Martin Stuber -- Transnational Careers in the Service of Empire: German Natural Historians in Eighteenth-Century London / Thomas Biskup -- Starting-Out, Getting-On and Becoming Famous in the Eighteenth-Century Republic of Letters / Laurence Brockliss -- From Aristocratic Support to Academic Office: Patronage and University in the Scottish Enlightenment / Iris Fleßenkämper -- "On the Means of Becoming Famous in the Learned World": Practices in Scholarly Constitution of Status and the Emergence of a Moral Economy of Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century / Marian Füssel -- Compiler into Genius. The Transformation of Dictionary Writers in Eighteenth-Century France and England / Caspar Hirschi -- Between Status Attainment and Professional Dialogue: The Significance of Membership in the Leopoldina in 1750 / Marion Mücke -- Jöcher’s Anthropology of Scholars / Ulrich Johannes Schneider -- On Some Social Characteristics of the Eighteenth-Century Botanists / René Sigrist -- Usurped Intentions: The Reception of Albrecht von Haller’s Writings in France / Florence Catherine -- Albrecht von Haller as Librarian: Searching and Finding in the Universe of Books / Claudia Engler -- Change of Paradigm as a Squabble between Institutions: The Institute of Historical Sciences, the Society of Sciences, and the Separation of Cultural and Natural Sciences in Göttingen in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century / Martin Gierl -- Wilhelm Ernst Tentzel as a Precursor of Learned Journalism in Germany: Monatliche Unterredungen and Curieuse Bibliothec / Thomas Habel -- Albrecht von Haller’s Contribution to the Göttingische Anzeigen von Gelehrten Sachen: The Accounting Records / Anne Saada -- Samuel Engels’s Bibliotheca selectissima (1743). "Rarity" as a Criterion of Knowledge and Its Classification / Torsten Sander -- The philosophe as a Virtuoso of Communication: Media, Spaces and Strategies in Voltaire’s Practice of Communication during the "Calas Affair" / Kirill Abrosimov -- Communication and Reputation. Correspondences between the Scientific Cultures in the Eighteenth and Twenty-first Centuries / Daniel Fulda -- Controversy as the Impetus of Enlightened Practice of Knowledge / Rainer Godel -- Secret Savants, Savant Secrets: The Concept of Science in the Imagination of European Freemasonry / Andreas Önnerfors -- Character Masks of Scholarship: Self-Representation and Self-Experiment as Practices of Knowledge around 1770 / Hole Rößler -- Reacting to Rousseau: Difficult Relations between Erudition and Politics in the Swiss Republics / Simone Zurbuchen -- Men of Exchange: Creation and Circulation of Knowledge in the Swiss Republics of the Eighteenth Century / Simona Boscani Leoni -- Illustrious Connections: The Premises and Practices of Knowledge Transfer between Switzerland and the Italian Peninsula / Clorinda Donato -- At Home in the World: The Savant in the Service of Global Education / Karl S. Guthke -- Research Practices in the Early Eighteenth Century: The Example of Johann Jakob Scheuchzer / Urs B. Leu. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462618103321 |
Holenstein André | ||
Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Mass., : Brill, c2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Soldgeschäfte, Klientelismus, Korruption in der Frühen Neuzeit : Zum Soldunternehmertum der Familie Zurlauben im schweizerischen und europäischen Kontext / / André Holenstein, Kaspar von Greyerz, Andreas Würgler |
Autore | von Greyerz Kaspar |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Göttingen, : V&R unipress, 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
Soggetto topico |
History / Modern
History |
ISBN |
9783737008594
3737008590 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ger |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910291730003321 |
von Greyerz Kaspar | ||
Göttingen, : V&R unipress, 2018 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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