Jeff Fynn-Paul, Ph.D. (2005) University of Toronto, is Lecturer in History and International Studies at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He has published widely on urban history, social stratification, and institutions with a focus on late medieval Iberia.

• Acknowledgements…viiList of Tables and Figures…viiiNotes on Contributors…ixIntroduction...1Entrepreneurs, Military Supply, and State Formation in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods: New DirectionsJeff Fynn-Paul, Marjolein ’t Hart and Griet VermeeschPart 1: The Medieval Origins of Military Entrepreneurialism...131 Military Enterprise in Florence at the Time of the Black Death, 1349–1350...15William Caferro2 Military Entrepreneurs in the Crown of Aragon during the Castilian–Aragonese War, 1356–1375...32Jeff Fynn-PaulPart 2: Early Modern Evolution: Varieties of Entrepreneurial Freedom...613 The Military Enterpriser in the Thirty Years’ War...63David Parrott4 Public Service and Private Profijit: British Fiscal-Military Entrepreneurship Overseas, 1707–1712...87Aaron Graham5 Entrepreneurs and the Recruitment of the British Army in the War of American Independence, 1775–1783...111Stephen Conway6 Suppliers to the Royal African Company and the Royal Navy in the Early Eighteenth Century...131Helen Julia Paul7 Accounting for Power: Bookkeeping and the Rationalization of Dutch Naval Administration...151Pepijn Brandon8 The Prince as Military Entrepreneur? Why Smaller Saxon Territories Sent ‘Hollandische Regimenter’ (Dutch Regiments) to the Dutch Republic...170Andrea Thiele9 The Grip of the State? Government Control over Provision of the Army in the Austrian Netherlands, 1725–1744...193Thomas GoossensPart 3: Early Modern Evolution: Controlling and Circumventing the Entrepreneur...21310 Agency Government in Louis XIV’s France: The Military Treasurers of the Elite Forces...215Guy Rowlands11 Centralized Funding of the Army in Spain: The Garrison Factoria in the Seventeenth Century...235Carlos Alvarez-Nogal12 In the Shadow of Power: Monopolist Entrepreneurs, the State and Spanish Military Victualling in the Eighteenth Century...260Rafael Torres SanchezPart 4: Ottoman Perspectives...28513 Rewarding Success in Military Enterprise: Forms Used for the Incentivizing of Commanders and their Troops in the Ottoman Military System of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries...287Rhoads Murphey14 The Evolution of Ottoman Military Logistical Systems in the Later Eighteenth Century: The Rise of A New Class of Military Entrepreneur...307Kahraman ŞakulBibliography...329Index...353

"This collection of essays is a valuable contribution towards helping us better understand a hitherto neglected area in the study of the relationship between the state and its military in the early modern world. It is a subject that holds much promise and this volume demonstrates how that promise is being fulfilled." - Henry Quinn