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Officers, Entrepreneurs, Career Migrants, and Diplomats
“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.
The Rise and Propagation of Historical Professionalism
This book examines the evolution of historical professionalism, with the development of an international community that shares a set of values regarding both methodological minimum demands and what constitutes new results. Historical professionalism is not a fixed set of skills, but a concept with varying import and meaning at different times depending on changing norms. Torstendahl covers the propagation of these different ideals and of new educational forms from the late 18th century to the present, from Ranke’s state-centrism to a historiography borne by social theories.
Switzerland Then and Now
The book is a sequel to author’s earlier book on Switzerland, Glimpses of Medieval Switzerland. It breaks new ground by examining how medieval Switzerland has changed into today’s tolerant country in accepting tourists from different cultures despite growing anti-immigrant attitudes, welcoming Indian mystics as well as film producers and directors (even honouring them!) and adopting such practices as Indian Ayurvedic treatments and promoting Japanese tea ceremonies. The book focuses on the growth of Asian tourism, which is discussed by destination, to such places/regions as Bernese Highlands including Interlaken, Lucerne and Zurich. Special attention is paid to the role of Indian Bollywood movies shot in Switzerland in the rise of Indian tourists in the country. Also discussed are celebrities (kings and queens, writers and film stars) who visited Switzerland for holidays (Queen Victoria, for example) or for work. Illustrations are based on over 100-year old vintage postcards in the author’s private collection.
Roads to Health
In Roads to Health, G. Geltner demonstrates that urban dwellers in medieval Italy had a keen sense of the dangers to their health posed by conditions of overcrowding, shortages of food and clean water, air pollution, and the improper disposal of human and animal waste. He consults scientific, narrative, and normative sources that detailed and consistently denounced the physical and environmental hazards urban communities faced: latrines improperly installed and sewers blocked; animals left to roam free and carcasses left rotting on public byways; and thoroughfares congested by artisanal and commercial activities that impeded circulation, polluted waterways, and raised miasmas. However, as Ge...
Gender, Space and Illicit Economies in Eighteenth-Century Europe
This book seeks to contribute a multi-dimensional, multi-layered and gendered approach to the illicit economy in the historiography of early modern Europe. Using original source material from several countries, this volume concentrates on a border and transnational area—approximately the Lyon-Geneva-Turin triangle—located at the heart of European trade. It focuses on three products—salt, cotton and silk—all of which fuelled the black market between the last decades of the seventeenth century and the French Revolution. This volume offers an original contribution to wider studies of smuggling, illicit markets and women’s economic roles by taking into account the economic life of remo...
The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460-1560
Much of early-modern Europe was built up gradually by a series of leagues and alliances, and this volume seeks to demonstrate that the Swiss Confederation was one such composite polity, surviving until the end of the ancien regime by accommodating and absorbing internal conflicts through a sense of common identity and mutual obligation.
Oeconomia Alpium II: Economic History of the Alps in Preindustrial Times
This is the second volume of conference proceedings for the handbook of the economic history of the Alpine region in the preindustrial era, which finally provides an extensive cross-regional synopsis of the history of the Alpine economy. Like Braudel’s classic on the Mediterranean region, renowned scholars examine the region and its people, the everyday lives of Alpine inhabitants, and commerce, migration, and communication in three volumes.
Der Günstling
In Europa tobt der Dreissigjährige Krieg. Kaspar Stockalper erkennt, dass er am Simplonpass im Wallis an einer geopolitischen Schlüsselstelle zwischen den Grossmächten sitzt. Mit klugem Kalkül, unternehmerischer Härte und politischer Gerissenheit bringt er den Pass unter seine Kontrolle und verschafft sich das Monopol auf den Warentransit und den Salzhandel. Er errichtet einen Mischkonzern, der bald halb Europa überspannt. In einem geschickten Balancespiel zwischen den Kriegsparteien nutzt er die Position an der Passroute. So schliesst er Geheimabkommen, erlaubt Truppendurchmärsche, liefert Söldner und gewährt Kredite gegen Salz und Handelsprivilegien. Stockalper ist begierig nach B...
Mitten in Deutschland, mitten im Krieg
Der Dreißigjährige Krieg gilt als die größte Katastrophe und traumatischste Kriegserfahrung der deutschen Geschichte vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Tatsächlich litten in vielen Regionen große Teile der Bevölkerung schwer unter den Kriegshandlungen und ihren Folgen. Zugleich gab es aber auch deutliche regionale und soziale Unterschiede: Während viele Hab und Gut oder sogar ihr Leben verloren, arrangierten sich andere mit dem Krieg oder konnten sogar von ihm profitieren, selbst in schwer vom Krieg betroffenen Regionen „mitten in Deutschland". Grundsätzlich gilt: Der Dreißigjährige Krieg wurde von den meisten Menschen nicht nur passiv erlitten, sondern immer auch aktiv bewältigt. Der Band untersucht die dabei zum Tragen kommenden Praktiken individueller, kollektiver wie institutioneller Akteure und arbeitet damit die verschiedenen Handlungsoptionen und Bewältigungsstrategien heraus.
Straßen im 16. Jahrhundert
Der 'Gute Weg', der ein reibungsloses, zügiges Vorankommen ohne Gefahr und Hinderung ermöglicht und damit die essentielle Grundlage einer vernetzten, raum- und distanzkomprimierten – kurz: mobilen – Gesellschaft repräsentiert, ist kein frommer Wunsch ausschließlich von Straßennutzer:innen der Gegenwart. Wie die Studie anhand einer praxeologischen Analyse zeigt, war außerurbane Verkehrsinfrastruktur wesentliches Fundament der vormodernen Gesellschaft; sie war Alltagsobjekt, das zum Kristallisationspunkt politischer und sozialer Dynamiken wurde. Besonders deutlich wird, dass vormoderne Fortbewegung von Umwelteinflüssen, natürlichen Ressourcen und lokalen Erhaltungsmaßnahmen abhängig war. Die Studie analysiert mikrohistorisch die komplexen, materiellen Bedingungen für Mobilität im 16. Jahrhundert und trägt zugleich dazu bei, frühneuzeitliche Staatsbildung dezidiert aus einer Perspektive des bottom up zu erforschen.
