“Los empresarios de la guerra”evolución historiográfica y nuevos retos de investigación
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Universidad de Navarra
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- Cristina Borreguero Beltrán (coord.)
- Ángela Pereda López (coord.)
- Asunción Retortillo Atienza (coord.)
- Óscar Raúl Melgosa Oter (coord.)
Publisher: Servicio de Publicaciones e Imagen Institucional ; Universidad de Burgos ; Fundación Española de Historia Moderna
ISBN: 978-84-18465-26-0
Year of publication: 2022
Pages: 275-313
Congress: Asociación Española de Historia Moderna. Reunión científica (16. 2021. Burgos)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
The warfare-development relationship in the early modern era has traditionally been interpreted by historians as a positive interrelation driven by state construction, military technology and administrative and fiscal institutional reforms. We propose a historiographic approach to rethink this traditional interpretation, focusing instead on the busy and fluid relations between state and society to ensure the provision of military supplies. We propose a new approach based on a more in-depth study of military supplies understood as a public-private partnership between the state and a varied clutch of social and institutional agents. We employ the concepts “Contractor States” and “Contractors” to reflect this universe of institutional, collective, public and private agents who coexisted and interrelated with each other: not only in the demand but also in the production, distribution, control and management.