Offers a new interpretation of the military entrepreneurs' role in state construction in early-modern Spain, demonstrating how their success or failure could determine whether or not warfare became a driving force of the economy and wealth, or an endless source of problems.
Offers a new interpretation of the military entrepreneurs' role in state construction in early-modern Spain, demonstrating how their success or failure could determine whether or not warfare became a driving force of the economy and wealth, or an endless source of problems.
Rafael Torres Sánchez mainly studies eighteenth-century Spanish warfare and its interconnection with the development of the state and its economy. He is the author of Constructing a Fiscal-Military State in Eighteenth-Century Spain (2015), El precio de la guerra: El estado fiscal-militar de Carlos III, 1779-1783 (2013), La llave de todos los tesoros: La Tesorería General de Carlos III (2012), and also collaborated with Stephen Conway on an edition of The Spending of the States: Military Expenditure during the Long Eighteenth Century: Patterns, Organisation and Consequences, 1650-1815 (2011). His work also includes War, State and Development: Fiscal-Military States in the Eighteenth Century (2007). His website can be found at http://www.unav.edu/centro/contractorstate
Inhaltsangabe
PART I: Introduction 1: From the Fiscal-Military State to the Contractor State 2: Economic policy and military supplies PART II: Victualling the Spanish armed forces 3: Public and Private Business: Soldiers' bread ration 4: National and State Capitalism 5: Monopolist entrepreneurs at the state¿s service PART III: Building the king's ships 6: The Fiscal-naval State 7: The paradigm of state intervention 8: The Spanish Naval Contractor State and entrepreneurs PART IV: The Contractor State in action 9: National market versus international market: the limits of mercantilism 10: Monopoly versus the market: urgency and flexibility 11: Conclusions Bibliography
PART I: Introduction 1: From the Fiscal-Military State to the Contractor State 2: Economic policy and military supplies PART II: Victualling the Spanish armed forces 3: Public and Private Business: Soldiers' bread ration 4: National and State Capitalism 5: Monopolist entrepreneurs at the state¿s service PART III: Building the king's ships 6: The Fiscal-naval State 7: The paradigm of state intervention 8: The Spanish Naval Contractor State and entrepreneurs PART IV: The Contractor State in action 9: National market versus international market: the limits of mercantilism 10: Monopoly versus the market: urgency and flexibility 11: Conclusions Bibliography
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