FMSystem transforms the conventional narrative of the violent rise of the European states system by revealing how belligerent competition also involved cooperation.
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Listen to Peter Wilson's inaugural lecture at the University of Oxford: "Competition through Cooperation: The European Fiscal-Military System"
Events
SEMINAR Cathleen Sarti (Oxford): 'Trading during War. The Baltic in Europe, ca 1550-1850'
12 February 2025
SEMINAR: Sarah von Hagen (Göttingen) 'Violent Seas: Experience, Representation, and Technology of Naval Warfare, 1665-1783'
04 December 2024
SEMINAR: Rachel Blackman-Rogers (KCL): 'How the Navy saved Britain 1793-1798'
20 November 2024
SEMINAR: Graeme Callister (York St Johns): 'Compulsion, Compliance and Combat: New Perspectives on Napoleonic Conscription'
12 June 2024
SEMINAR: Fabrizio Ansani (Exeter): "At the origins of raw materials diplomacy. Saltpeter trade in Renaissance Italy"
29 April 2024
SEMINAR: William Godsey (Austrian Academy of Sciences): "Local Authority and Private Enterprise: Provisioning the Habsburg Army from the Seven Years War"
01 May 2024
SEMINAR: (Peter Wilson) Urban Hubs in Europe's Fiscal-Military System, 1530-1870
15 April 2024
SEMINAR: Louis Sicking (Amsterdam/Leiden), Warfare and European expansion in the Indian Ocean and Pacific, 1450-1850
01 June 2023
SEMINAR: David Parrott (Oxford), Beyond Richelieu's Army: perspectives on army, state and society in France, 1620-1660
17 May 2023
SEMINAR: Malte Riemann (Reading/Sandhurst): 'Mercenaries, Modernity, and the International: Re-evaluating the 19th century 'shift away from mercenary use''
08 February 2023
LECTURE: (Peter Wilson, Oxford), 'The Habsburg Monarchy as a Fiscal Military State in the international context'
02 February 2023
TALK: Michael Martoccio. "Fortune's Solders: The Business of War in Europe from the Italian Wars to the War in Ukraine"
13 December 2022
KEYNOTE (Peter Wilson): 'Contractors, States, and the Circulation of War Resources in Europe's Fiscal-Military system 1530-1870'
14 November 2022
SEMINAR: Sveinn Johannesson (Edinburgh), The American Scientific-Military State in the Early Nineteenth Century
02 November 2022
CONFERENCE PAPER: 'Gdańsk as Baltic hub: Between war business and neutrality in the Northern Wars period, c.1630 to 1721"
09 August 2022
CONFERENCE PAPER: The Fiscal-Military System in Early Modern Europe
01 September 2022 to 02 September 2022
SEMINAR: Andrew Ayton (Keele) 'The king's war at sea: armees and maritime service in fourteenth-century England'
04 May 2022
KEYNOTE: 2022 Massena Society Conference: Peter H. Wilson
12 March 2022
SEMINAR: Sabine Jesner (Graz) 'Managing Habsburg battlefield medicine during the Ottoman wars, 1716-1792'
23 February 2021
SEMINAR: Ismini Pells (Oxford) 'Military Welfare in early modern Europe'
01 December 2021
CONFERENCE PAPER: John Condren (Oxford) "Bonaparte, Geneva, and the Helvetic Republic, 1798-1813"
27 September 2021 to 28 September 2021
CONFERENCE PAPER: Katali Pataki (Oxford) 'Sieged and Occupied: Vienna in 1683 and in 1809'.
23 September 2021
CONFERENCE PAPER: Cathleen Sarti (Oxford) Civil Wars in the Baltic c.1550-1620
10 September 2021
TALK: Michael Depreter (Oxford) on Fortifications, Gunpowder artillery, and State formation
10 September 2021
SEMINAR (Katalin Pataki, Oxford): Vienna in the European Fiscal-Military System (1683 - 1815)
17 June 2021
SEMINAR (Enrico Acciai, Copenhagen): 'A Global Approach to Transnational War Volunteering after 1945'
16 June 2021
SEMINAR (Sonia Tycko, Oxford): 'Consenting to Serve the Sovereign: Military Impressment as Contract Formation, 1625-1649'
02 June 2021
BOOK LAUNCH: Aaron Graham, 'Bills of Union: money, empire and ambition in the mid-eighteenth century British Atlantic'
28 April 2021
Research Posters
Infinite Money: London and the European Fiscal-Military System (Aaron Graham)
Finding Money, Finding Men: Agents and Solicitors between Amsterdam and The Hague (Jeannette Kamp)
The Baltic Case Study (Cathleen Sarti)
Genoa: A Fiscal Military Hub 1700-1714 (Michael Martoccio)
La Porte Des Alpes: Geneva as a fiscal military hub 1685-1709 (John Condren)
