Book ID: CBB081583261

The Rise of the Military Entrepreneur: War, Diplomacy, and Knowledge in Habsburg Europe (2022)

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Suzanne Sutherland (Author)


Cornell University Press


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 276
Language: English

The Rise of the Military Entrepreneur explores how a new kind of international military figure emerged from, and exploited, the seventeenth century's momentous political, military, commercial, and scientific changes. In the era of the Thirty Years' War, these figures traveled rapidly and frequently across Europe using private wealth, credit, and connections to raise and command the armies that rulers desperately needed. Their careers reveal the roles international networks, private resources, and expertise played in building and at times undermining the state. Suzanne Sutherland uncovers the influence of military entrepreneurs by examining their activities as not only commanders but also diplomats, natural philosophers, information brokers, clients, and subjects on the battlefield, as well as through strategic marital and family allegiances. Sutherland focuses on Raimondo Montecuccoli (1609?80), a middling nobleman from the Duchy of Modena, who became one of the most powerful men in the Austrian Habsburg monarchy and helped found a new discipline, military science. The Rise of the Military Entrepreneur explains how Montecuccoli successfully met battlefield, court, and family responsibilities while contributing to the world of scholarship on an often violent, fragmented political-military landscape. As a result, Sutherland shifts the perspective on war away from the ruler and his court to instead examine the figures supplying force, along with their methods, networks, and reflections on those experiences.

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Authors & Contributors
Surman, Jan
Barreca, Francesco
Giovanni Pratesi
Annarita Franza
Petschar, Hans
Veres, Madalina Valeria
Concepts
Science and politics
Science and society
Court sponsored science; patronage
Astronomy
Science and war; science and the military
Cross-national comparison
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
20th century, early
19th century
18th century
Early modern
Places
Europe
Austria
Hungary
Prague (Czechia)
Vienna (Austria)
Zurich (Switzerland)
Institutions
Habsburg, House of
Univerzita Karlova
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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