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The European Fiscal-Military System 1530-1870

Research Blog

Our blogs explore key concepts and issues we have encountered in our project, and report some of our thoughts and findings.

We are keen to engage with other researchers, including those approaching these questions from different perspectives or examining other times and places. If you are interested in submitting a piece to be included in our series, please contact our Project Administrator.

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The Business of War in the Baltic Sea Region

18 December 2023

Project Books: The Alpine Vault of Europe

22 September 2023

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The British Fiscal-Military State During the American War of Independence

09 August 2023

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The Baltic Region in Europe's Wars

04 July 2023

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Cooperation amidst Competition. Europe's Fiscal-Military System and the Nationalisation of Warfare 1530-1870

15 November 2022

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Seeing Like Soldiers in the United States

31 October 2022

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Project Books - "Infinite Money: London and the European Fiscal-Military System, 1650-1870"

07 October 2022

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Part II A profitable partnership: France and the Swiss Confederacy 1793 - 1813

26 September 2022

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Workshop report II: Endings of the Fiscal-Military System

13 July 2022

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A profitable partnership: France and the Swiss Confederacy

04 July 2022

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Workshop report: Beginnings of the Fiscal-Military System

09 June 2022

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Foreign Enlistment

22 March 2022

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Privateers from Zeeland to Zealand

02 March 2022

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Having Fun with a Unique Source: The Sound Toll Registers Online

18 February 2022

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Horses, hay, and hitches in haulage: France's use of the United Provinces for the movement of military supplies in the Seven Years War

08 December 2021

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Lost in Translation? Compiling the Fiscal-Military System Bibliography

23 November 2021

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Something Amiss at the Inn of Andrea Rovegno: A Story of Deserters and Recruiters at the Port of Genoa

26 October 2021

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The Swiss cantons and their business of war - Anything but 'just business'

28 July 2021

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The Cambier Arms Business as Military Entrepreneurship Avant-la-Lettre in the 15th Century Low Countries

22 June 2021

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The European Fiscal-Military System and the Wider World, 1530 - 1870

30 April 2021

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War: The Beating Heart of the Dutch Republic

05 March 2021

Stoopendael (1636-1707): „De Stadt Algiers / La Ville d'Alger". Copperplate print, colorized, c. 1680/1690

Our Man in Algiers: A Temporary Fiscal-Military Hub In North Africa, 1707

22 February 2021

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An Impossible Hand

04 February 2021

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Touring the Palazzo di San Giorgio in Eighteenth-Century Genoa

17 December 2020

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Swedish reminiscences

10 November 2020

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La grande enigmé : France in Europe's Fiscal-Military System, part 1

13 October 2020

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Researchers on the Road: The Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel

15 July 2020

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Counting Soldiers

04 June 2020

Façade of the Trippenhuis designed by Johannes Vinckboons, 1664. Collection: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

Lost and Found: the Heritage of Amsterdam's Golden Arms Trade

07 May 2020

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Out of the Archive and Up to the Walls of the Parco Urbano delle Mura

06 April 2020

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December in Geneva

19 February 2020

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Reading Introductions, Finding Research Questions

22 January 2020

Reading the Contractor State

04 December 2019

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Terms Matter

04 December 2019