Suzanne Sutherland (Author)
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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Surman, Jan;
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The Nationalization of Scientific Knowledge in the Habsburg Empire, 1848--1918
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Geert Somsen;
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The princess at the conference: Science, pacifism, and Habsburg society
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López Terrada, María Luz;
(2009)
Los sistemas de control de la práctica médica en la monarquía hispánica de los Habsburgo
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Essay Review
Andrea Gualandi;
(2014)
Nuove stelle, scienza e società alla vigilia della Guerra dei Trent'anni
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The Correspondence of Boldizsár Batthyány: The Everyday Life of an Early Modern Alchemist
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(2019)
Scrutinizing the Heavens, Measuring the Earth: Joseph Liesganig’s Contribution to the Mapping of the Habsburg Lands in the Eighteenth Century
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Rothe, Johanna;
(2014)
Psychoanalysis, Sexuality, and Nationality in Late Habsburg Austria
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Hans Petschar;
(2016)
Der ewige Kaiser: Franz Joseph I. 1830-1916
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Barreca, Francesco;
Boner, Patrick J.;
(2013)
A Perfect Similitude: Science and Politics in Kepler's Dedicatory Letter to De stella nova and the Astronomia nova
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Christof Aichner;
(2020)
Le Università austriache e la Grande Guerra. Storiografia e memoria
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Michael Gordin;
Jan Surman;
(2016)
Beyond the Center: Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe and their Histories. An Interview with Professor Michael Gordin, Conducted by Jan Surman
(/isis/citation/CBB713118640/)
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Annarita Franza;
Johannes Mattes;
Giovanni Pratesi;
(2022)
Collectio Mineralium: The catalog of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II’s mineralogical collection
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Atalic, Bruno;
(2012)
Differences and Similarities in the Regulation of Medical Practice between Early Modern Vienna and Osijek
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Karel Černý;
(2023)
Sharing the Knowledge at Habsburg Medical Faculties in the Baroque Era: The Case of Jan František Löw’s Reading List for Medical Students in Prague (1693)
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Daxelmüller, Christoph;
(2006)
Magie zwischen Religion und Wissenschaft am Hof Rudolfs II von Habsburg in Prag
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Outram, Quentin;
(2001)
The Socio-Economic Relations of Warfare and the Military Mortality Crises of the Thirty Years' War
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Wyder, Samuel;
(2014)
La carte du lac de Constance de Hans Conrad Gyger (1633)
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Marshall Miller, David;
(2008)
The Thirty Years War and the Galileo Affair
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Shalev, Zur;
(2009)
Harmony and Reason of State: Intersections of Cosmography and Political Theory in the Early Modem Period
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Barreca, Francesco;
(2011)
The Allegory of War in Johannes Keplers' Astronomia Nova
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