Author: Torres Sánchez, Rafael.
Title: Military entrepreneurs and the Spanish contractor state in the eighteenth century.
Description: Oxford, Oxford University Press, [2016]. [XVII],297 pp. 4 b./w. maps. Orig. hardcover (pictorial boards). 8vo. - Very small collector's stamp on the title-page. - Overall as new.This work offers a new interpretation of the military entrepreneurs' role in state construction in early-modern Spain, demonstrating how their success or failure could determine whether or not warfare became a driving force of the economy and wealth, or an endless source of problems.

Keywords: History Europe Spain Military Europa Spain Geschiedenis Europa Spanje Militaria Europa Spanje