David Parrott
Autor(a) de The Business of War: Military Enterprise and Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe
About the Author
David Parrott is a fellow and lecturer at New College, University of Oxford. His previous books include Richelieu's Army: War, Government and Society in France 1624-1642 (Cambridge, 2001). Cover Illustration: Ferdinand Hodler, The Retreat from Marignano, central fresco, c. 1900, Inventory number mostrar mais LM-41994. Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Zrich. Photo: courtesy Landesmuseum. mostrar menos
Obras por David Parrott
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War, Entrepreneurs, and the State in Europe and the Mediterranean, 1300-1800 (2014) — Compositor — 4 exemplares
Richelieu contra Olivares : Francia en la guerra de los Treinta Años (2014) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
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- Obras
- 4
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- 3
- Membros
- 93
- Popularidade
- #200,859
- Avaliação
- 4.2
- Críticas
- 3
- ISBN
- 12
As a point of contrast Parrott often turns to his previous work on how the French attempted to make war without native-born officers who were personally invested in their units, and who could depend upon their investment being recognized by the state. This made for haphazard success until the regime of Louis XIV embraced full-scale venality of the operational command structure in his army. This both recognized the monetary costs imposed on the nobility (whose wealth could not otherwise be accessed) while paying back the nobility in the coin that really mattered to them; recognition and social influence. The last section of this study is largely dedicated to examining social contracts such as these, as though the contractor generals of the Thirty Years War who raised armies as a speculative profit-making venture were gone, it doesn't mean that the military entrepreneur had disappeared with the Peace of Westphalia; it just means that the cut of their coat had changed.
While this should probably not be the first book one reads on the subject I found it very illuminating, particularly since as it appears that the era of the mass army as the expression of a nation-in-arms has ended and the military contractor has again become a viable instrument of state.… (mais)