War, capital, and the Dutch state (1588-1795) / by Pepijn Brandon.

By: Brandon, Pepijn [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Historical materialism book series ; volume 101.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]Copyright date: 2015Description: 1 online resource (461 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789004302518 (e-book)Subject(s): Nationalism -- Netherlands -- History -- 17th century | Nationalism -- Netherlands -- History -- 18th century | Nation-state -- History | Mercantile system -- Netherlands -- History -- 17th century | Mercantile system -- Netherlands -- History -- 18th century | World politics -- 17th century | World politics -- 18th century | WarGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: War, capital, and the Dutch state (1588-1795).DDC classification: 949.2/04 LOC classification: DJ156 | .B73 2015Online resources: Click to View
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INTRODUCTION. Dutch war-making and state-making : three solutions to a riddle -- Typologies of the early modern state form -- The Dutch cycle of accumulation -- The federal-brokerage state and its "historic bloc" -- Content and structure of the book -- 1. THE MAKING OF THE FEDERAL-BROKERAGE STATE. 1.1. The Dutch Revolt and the establishment of the state -- 1.2. Types of brokerage. 1) Merchant warriors -- 1.3. Types of brokerage. 2) Merchants as administrators -- 1.4. Types of brokerage. 3) Financial intermediaries in troop payments -- 1.5. Political and ideological foundations of the federal-brokerage state -- Conclusions -- 2. MERCHANT COMPANIES, NAVAL POWER, AND TRADE PROTECTION. 2.1. The naval revolution and the challenge to Dutch trade -- 2.2. A unified state company for colonial trade? -- 2.3. The VOC and the navy from symbiosis to division of labour -- 2.4. The WIC between private trade and state protection -- 2.5. European commercial directorates as protection lobbies -- 2.6. Protection costs and merchant interests -- Conclusions -- 3. PRODUCTION, SUPPLY, AND LABOUR RELATIONS AT THE NAVAL SHIPYARDS. 3.1. Capitalist rationality, accounting, and the naval revolution -- 3.2. Personal networks and market practices -- 3.3. Different products, different systems of supply : victuals, wood, smaller supplies -- 3.4. Naval shipyards as centres of production -- 3.5. Shipyards and their workforce -- 3.6. Admiralty boards and the labour market -- 3.7. Combination, coordination, and control -- 3.8. Of time, theft, and chips -- 3.9. Neptune's trident and Athena's gifts -- Conclusions -- 4. TROOP PAYMENTS, MILITARY SOLICITING, AND THE WORLD OF FINANCE. 4.1. From disorder to regulation -- 4.2. A golden age of military soliciting -- 4.3. Two careers in military finance -- 4.4. The daily affairs of a financial middleman -- 4.5. Networks of credit and influence -- 4.6. Military soliciting in the age of financialisation -- Conclusions -- 5. THE STRUCTURAL CRISIS OF THE FEDERAL-BROKERAGE STATE. 5.1. The rise and limits of reform agendas -- 5.2. Warring companies and the debate over free trade -- 5.3. Admiralty boards at the centre of the storm -- 5.4. From citizens' militias to the Batavian Legion -- 5.5. The afterlife of the federal-brokerage state -- Conclusions -- CONCLUSION. -- Annex 1. Holland members of the Amsterdam Admiralty Board -- Sources -- Annex 2. Zeeland members of the Zeeland Admiralty Board -- Sources -- Annex 3. Income and expenditure of the Amsterdam Admiralty : steps from figures in "borderel" to reconstruction.
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INTRODUCTION. Dutch war-making and state-making : three solutions to a riddle -- Typologies of the early modern state form -- The Dutch cycle of accumulation -- The federal-brokerage state and its "historic bloc" -- Content and structure of the book -- 1. THE MAKING OF THE FEDERAL-BROKERAGE STATE. 1.1. The Dutch Revolt and the establishment of the state -- 1.2. Types of brokerage. 1) Merchant warriors -- 1.3. Types of brokerage. 2) Merchants as administrators -- 1.4. Types of brokerage. 3) Financial intermediaries in troop payments -- 1.5. Political and ideological foundations of the federal-brokerage state -- Conclusions -- 2. MERCHANT COMPANIES, NAVAL POWER, AND TRADE PROTECTION. 2.1. The naval revolution and the challenge to Dutch trade -- 2.2. A unified state company for colonial trade? -- 2.3. The VOC and the navy from symbiosis to division of labour -- 2.4. The WIC between private trade and state protection -- 2.5. European commercial directorates as protection lobbies -- 2.6. Protection costs and merchant interests -- Conclusions -- 3. PRODUCTION, SUPPLY, AND LABOUR RELATIONS AT THE NAVAL SHIPYARDS. 3.1. Capitalist rationality, accounting, and the naval revolution -- 3.2. Personal networks and market practices -- 3.3. Different products, different systems of supply : victuals, wood, smaller supplies -- 3.4. Naval shipyards as centres of production -- 3.5. Shipyards and their workforce -- 3.6. Admiralty boards and the labour market -- 3.7. Combination, coordination, and control -- 3.8. Of time, theft, and chips -- 3.9. Neptune's trident and Athena's gifts -- Conclusions -- 4. TROOP PAYMENTS, MILITARY SOLICITING, AND THE WORLD OF FINANCE. 4.1. From disorder to regulation -- 4.2. A golden age of military soliciting -- 4.3. Two careers in military finance -- 4.4. The daily affairs of a financial middleman -- 4.5. Networks of credit and influence -- 4.6. Military soliciting in the age of financialisation -- Conclusions -- 5. THE STRUCTURAL CRISIS OF THE FEDERAL-BROKERAGE STATE. 5.1. The rise and limits of reform agendas -- 5.2. Warring companies and the debate over free trade -- 5.3. Admiralty boards at the centre of the storm -- 5.4. From citizens' militias to the Batavian Legion -- 5.5. The afterlife of the federal-brokerage state -- Conclusions -- CONCLUSION. -- Annex 1. Holland members of the Amsterdam Admiralty Board -- Sources -- Annex 2. Zeeland members of the Zeeland Admiralty Board -- Sources -- Annex 3. Income and expenditure of the Amsterdam Admiralty : steps from figures in "borderel" to reconstruction.

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