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dc.contributor.editorTalvitie, Petri
dc.contributor.editorGranqvist, Juha-Matti
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-23T15:11:23Z
dc.date.available2021-07-23T15:11:23Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifierONIX_20210723_9789523690394_10
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50171
dc.description.abstractDuring the early modern centuries, gunpowder and artillery revolutionized warfare, and armies grew rapidly. To sustain their new military machines, the European rulers turned increasingly to their civilian subjects, making all levels of civil society serve the needs of the military. This volume examines civil-military interaction in the multinational Swedish Realm in 1550–1800, with a focus on its eastern part, present-day Finland, which was an important supply region and battlefield bordered by Russia. Sweden was one of the frontrunners of the Military Revolution in the 16th and 17th centuries. The crown was eager to adapt European models, but its attempts to outsource military supply to civilians in a realm lacking people, capital, and resources were not always successful. This book aims at explaining how the army utilized civilians – burghers, peasants, entrepreneurs – to provision itself, and how the civil population managed to benefit from the cooperation. The chapters of the book illustrate the different ways in which Finnish civilians took part in supplying war efforts, e.g. how the army made deals with businessmen to finance its military campaigns and how town and country people were obliged to lodge and feed soldiers.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCZ Economic historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH Historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHW Military historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural historyen_US
dc.subject.othercivil-military relations
dc.subject.otherearly modern history
dc.subject.othermilitary revolution
dc.subject.otherstate formation
dc.subject.othernew military history
dc.subject.otherFinland
dc.titleCivilians and Military Supply in Early Modern Finland
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.33134/HUP-10
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy20cefb8d-481a-4a27-af02-aec9567fecb5
oapen.relation.isbn9789523690394
oapen.relation.isbn9789523690400
oapen.relation.isbn9789523690417
oapen.relation.isbn9789523690387
oapen.imprintHelsinki University Press
oapen.pages315
oapen.place.publicationHelsinki


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