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"Money, money, and more money." In the eyes of early modern warlords, these were the three essential prerequisites for waging war. The transnational studies presented here describe and explain how belligerent powers did indeed rely on thriving markets where military entrepreneurs provided mercenaries, weapons, money, credit, food, expertise, and other services. In a fresh and comprehensive examination of pre-national military entrepreneurship – its actors, structures and economic logic – this volume shows how readily business relationships for supplying armies in the 17th and 18th centuries crossed territorial and confessional boundaries. By outlining and explicating early modern military entrepreneurial fields of action, this new transnational perspective transcends the limits of national historical approaches to the business of war. Contributors are Astrid Ackermann, John Condren, Jasmina Cornut, Michael Depreter, Sébastien Dupuis, Marian Füssel, Julien Grand, André Holenstein, Katrin Keller, Michael Paul Martoccio, Tim Neu, David Parrott, Alexander Querengässer, Philippe Rogger, Guy Rowlands, Benjamin Ryser, Regula Schmid, and Peter H. Wilson.

Entrepreneurship. --- Early Modern History. --- History of Warfare. --- History.

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Did ordinary Italians have a 'Renaissance'? This book presents the first in-depth exploration of how artisans and small local traders experienced the material and cultural Renaissance. Drawing on a rich blend of sixteenth century visual and archival evidence, it examines how individuals and families at artisanal levels (such as shoemakers, barbers, bakers and innkeepers) lived and worked, managed their household economies and consumption, socialised in their homes, and engaged with the arts and the markets for luxury goods. It demonstrates that although the economic and social status of local craftsmen and traders was relatively low, their material possessions show how these men and women who rarely make it into the history books were fully engaged with contemporary culture, cultural customs and the urban way of life.

Artisans --- Middle class --- Material culture --- History --- Siena (Italy) --- Civilization --- Early modern artisans and shopkeepers. --- Early modern material culture and daily life. --- History of Siena. --- Italian Renaissance. --- Material culture and consumer history. --- Renaissance domestic interior and decorative arts.

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The period from the late 17th to the early 19th century - the so-called long 18th century of English history - was a time of profound global change, marked by the expansion of intercontinental empires, long-distance trade, and human enslavement. It was also the moment when medicines, previously produced locally and in small batches, became global products. As greater numbers of British subjects struggled to survive overseas, more medicines than ever were manufactured and exported to help them. Most historical accounts, however, obscure the medicine trade's dependence on slave labour, plantation agriculture, and colonial warfare. In 'Merchants of Medicines,' Zachary Dorner follows the earliest industrial pharmaceuticals from their manufacture in the UK, across trade routes, and to the edges of empire, telling a story of what medicines were, what they did, and what they meant.

Pharmaceutical industry --- History. --- Great Britain --- Commerce --- America. --- Atlantic World. --- Britain. --- Caribbean. --- Early Modern. --- capitalism. --- empire. --- medicine. --- merchants. --- slavery.

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This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to concepts of the self associated with the development of humanism in England, and to strategies for both inclusion and exclusion in structuring the early modern nation state. It addresses writings about rhetoric and behavior from 1495-1660, beginning with Erasmus' work on sermo or the conversational rhetoric between friends, which considers the reader as an 'absent audience', and following the transference of this stance to a politics whose broadening democratic constituency needed a legitimate structure for governance-at-a-distance. Unusually, the book brings together the impact on behavior of these new concepts about rhetoric, with the growth of the publishing industry, and the emergence of capitalism and of modern medicine. It explores the effects on the formation of the 'subject' and political legitimation of the early liberal nation state. It also lays new ground for scholarship concerned with what is left out of both selfhood and politics by that state, studying examples of a parallel development of the 'self' defined by friendship not only from educated male writers, but also from women writers and writers concerned with socially 'middling' and laboring people and the poor.

Capitalism. --- Market economy --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- England --- Intellectual life --- Behavior. --- Citizenship in Early Modern England. --- Friendship. --- Relational Identity. --- Rhetoric. --- Literary rhetorics --- anno 1500-1799 --- E-books

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Early Modern Debts: 1550–1700 makes an important contribution to the history of debt and credit in Europe, creating new transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives on problems of debt, credit, trust, interest, and investment in early modern societies. The collection includes essays by leading international scholars and early career researchers in the fields of economic and social history, legal history, literary criticism, and philosophy on such subjects as trust and belief; risk; institutional history; colonialism; personhood; interiority; rhetorical invention; amicable language; ethnicity and credit; household economics; service; and the history of comedy. Across the collection, the book reveals debt’s ubiquity in life and literature. It considers debt’s function as a tie between the individual and the larger group and the ways in which debts structured the home, urban life, legal systems, and linguistic and literary forms. .

Literature, Modern. --- Literature. --- Economic history. --- Early Modern/Renaissance Literature. --- Literature, general. --- Economic History. --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Modern literature --- Arts, Modern --- Debt --- Indebtedness --- Finance --- History. --- European literature --- Comparative literature. --- Early Modern and Renaissance Literature. --- Comparative Literature. --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Literature, Renaissance --- Renaissance literature --- Literature, Modern --- Renaissance, 1450-1600. --- History and criticism