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War, capital, and the Dutch state (1588-1795), by Pepijn Brandon

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War, capital, and the Dutch state (1588-1795)

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by Pepijn Brandon

Brill E-BooksHistorical Materialism Book Series, 101

Pepijn Brandon traces the interaction between state and capital in the organisation of warfare in the Dutch Republic from the Dutch Revolt of the sixteenth century to the Batavian Revolution of 1795. Combining deep theoretical insight with a thorough examination of original source material, ranging from the role of the Dutch East- and West-India Companies to the inner workings of the Amsterdam naval shipyard, and from state policy to the role of private intermediaries in military finance, Brandon provides a sweeping new interpretation of the rise and fall of the Dutch Republic as a hegemonic power within the early modern capitalist world-system

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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 : victuals, wood, smaller supplies -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Sources -- Annex 2. Zeeland members of the Zeeland Admiralty Board -- Sources -- Annex 3. Income and expenditure of the Amsterdam Admiralty : steps from figures in "borderel" to reconstruction