The Rise of the Military Entrepreneur: War, Diplomacy, and Knowledge in Habsburg Europe

by Suzanne Sutherland

The Rise of the Military Entrepreneur explores how a new kind of international military figure emerged from, and exploited, the seventeenth century's momentous political, military, commercial, and scientific changes. In the era of the Thirty Years' War, these figures traveled rapidly and frequently across Europe using private wealth, credit, and connections to raise and command the armies that rulers desperately needed. Their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150175100X
• ISBN13: 9781501751004
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up