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

TitleThe Business of War: Military Enterprise and Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2012
AuthorsParrott, David
Number of Pages446
PublisherCambridge University Press
CityCambridge
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In place of states steadily growing to meet the demands of warfare, Parrott argues that instead it was private enterprise that was called upon to fill many of the gaps and smooth out many of the bumps left by the state’s weakness. It has always been clear that private enterprise had a significant role in early modern warfare, and there is a considerable, albeit scattered, literature on mercenaries, privateering, military contracting and so on, in a variety of periods and national contexts. The argument presented here, however, is much more wide-ranging, suggesting convincingly that military enterprise was in fact virtually omnipresent in early modern warfare, and consequently deserves much greater consideration than it has received. [Younger, Neil, review of The Business of War. Military Enterprise and Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe, (review no. 1367)]

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