Full Description
This important volume traces the interaction between state and capital in the organization of warfare in the Dutch Republic. Combining deep theoretical insight with a thorough examination of original source material 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.
Contents
List of Charts and Tables
Translations of Frequently Used Dutch Terms
Note on Currency
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 .
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
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
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Annex 2 Zeeland Members of the Zeeland Admiralty Board
Annex 3 Income and Expenditure of the Amsterdam Admiralty: Steps from Figures in 'Borderel' to Reconstruction
Sources and Bibliography
Index
