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In War, Entrepreneurs, and the State , Jeff Fynn-Paul (Leiden) assembles an internationally acclaimed selection of authors to push forward the debate on the role of entrepreneurs in making war and building states in Europe and the Ottoman Empire. Topics covered include logistics, supply, recruitment, and the finance of war. Chapters have been carefully commissioned with an eye towards complementarity. In an introduction co-written with Marjolein ‘t Hart and Griet Vermeesch, Fynn-Paul challenges existing discourses of military entrepreneurialism. A new benchmark is proposed: did states choose to work with entrepreneurs, or to restrict their activities and subvert the market? From the introduction and the individual chapters, a new more expansive vision of the military entrepreneur emerges. Contributors are: Carlos Álvarez-Nogal, Pepijn Brandon, William Caferro, Stephen Conway, Thomas Goossens, Aaron Graham, Rhoads Murphey, David Parrott, Helen Paul, Guy Rowlands, Kahraman Şakul, Marjolein 't Hart, Andrea Thiele, and Rafael Torres Sánchez.

History of Europe --- Polemology --- War --- Businesspeople --- Krieg. --- Kriegswirtschaft. --- Economic aspects --- History. --- Europe --- Mediterranean Region --- Europa. --- Mittelmeerraum. --- History, Military. --- Politics and government --- Politics and government. --- Armies -- History. --- Europe -- History, Military. --- Military history, Modern. --- History & Archaeology --- History - General --- History --- Business people --- Business persons --- Businesspersons --- Entrepreneurs --- Armed conflict (War) --- Conflict, Armed (War) --- Fighting --- Hostilities --- Wars --- Circum-Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Area --- Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Sea Region --- Professional employees --- International relations --- Military art and science --- Peace

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The Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie is one of the first long-term studies in English of an Iberian town during the late medieval crisis. Focusing on the Catalonian city of Manresa, Jeff Fynn-Paul expertly integrates Iberian historiography with European narratives to place the city's social, political and economic development within the broader context of late medieval urban decline. Drawing from extensive archival research, including legal and administrative records, royal letters, and a cadastral survey of more than 640 households entitled the 1408 Liber Manifesti, the author surveys the economic strategies of both elites and non-elites to a level previously unknown for any medieval town outside of Tuscany and Ghent. In a major contribution to the series, The Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie reveals how a combination of the Black Death, royal policy, and a new public debt system challenged, and finally undermined urban resilience in Catalonia.

Manresa --- Black Death --- Black Death. --- City and town life. --- Middle class. --- 711-1516. --- Manresa (Spain) --- History of Spain --- anno 1200-1499 --- Middle Ages. --- City and town life --- Middle class --- Debts, Public --- Debts, Public. --- Economic history. --- Politics and government. --- Social conditions. --- History --- Spain --- Spain. --- History. --- Economic conditions. --- Debts, Government --- Government debts --- National debts --- Public debt --- Public debts --- Sovereign debt --- Debt --- Bonds --- Deficit financing --- Epidemics --- Medicine, Medieval --- Plague --- Bourgeoisie --- Commons (Social order) --- Middle classes --- Social classes --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Sociology, Urban --- Dark Ages --- History, Medieval --- Medieval history --- Medieval period --- Middle Ages --- World history, Medieval --- World history --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medievalism --- Renaissance --- Social conditions --- Manresa, Spain.

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In Slaving Zones: Cultural Identities, Ideologies, and Institutions in the Evolution of Global Slavery , fourteen authors—including both world-leading and emerging historians of slavery—engage with the ‘Slaving Zones’ theory. This theory has recently taken the field of Mediterranean slavery studies by storm, and the challenge posed by the editors was to see if the ‘Slaving Zones’ theory could be applied in the wider context of long-term global history. The results of this experiment are promising. In the Introduction, Jeff Fynn-Paul points out over a dozen ways in which the contributors have added to the concept of ‘Slaving Zones’, helping to make it one of the more dynamic theories of global slavery since the advent of Orlando Patterson’s Slavery and Social Death .

Slavery --- Slaves --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- History.