War, Capital, and the Dutch State (1588-1795)

ISBN: 9789004228146 出版年：2015 页码：461 Pepijn Brandon Brill

List of Charts and Tables Translations of Frequently Used Dutch Terms Note on Currency 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 . Chapter 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 Chapter 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 Chapter 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 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 Chapter 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 Chapter 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 Annex 2 Zeeland Members of the Zeeland Admiralty Board Annex 3 Income and Expenditure of the Amsterdam Admiralty: Steps from Figures in 'Borderel' to Reconstruction Sources and Bibliography Index