Huguenots, Jacobites, prisoners and the challenge of military remittances in early modern warfare
Early modern states faced numerous challenges in supporting their prisoners of war, not least the problems of remitting them money for their subsistence, which had to pass across hostile borders. Examining how the British state achieved this in the War of the Spanish Succession (1702–13) shows the l...
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Taylor and Francis
2021
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| description | Early modern states faced numerous challenges in supporting their prisoners of war, not least the problems of remitting them money for their subsistence, which had to pass across hostile borders. Examining how the British state achieved this in the War of the Spanish Succession (1702–13) shows the limits of modern scholarship on state formation and its focus on administrative reform and domestic resource mobilisation. The projection of power continued to rely on international Huguenot and even Jacobite financial networks, held together by personal trust and private interests, sometimes even while they were working for the enemy. Success was achieved because British officials were able to tap into these networks through hubs such as London, Amsterdam, Paris and Madrid, and use them to maintain the flow of money abroad.
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:147c5a14-dcbf-4968-b07c-ce17df385cf62022-03-26T10:20:05ZHuguenots, Jacobites, prisoners and the challenge of military remittances in early modern warfareJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:147c5a14-dcbf-4968-b07c-ce17df385cf6EnglishSymplectic ElementsTaylor and Francis2021Graham, AEarly modern states faced numerous challenges in supporting their prisoners of war, not least the problems of remitting them money for their subsistence, which had to pass across hostile borders. Examining how the British state achieved this in the War of the Spanish Succession (1702–13) shows the limits of modern scholarship on state formation and its focus on administrative reform and domestic resource mobilisation. The projection of power continued to rely on international Huguenot and even Jacobite financial networks, held together by personal trust and private interests, sometimes even while they were working for the enemy. Success was achieved because British officials were able to tap into these networks through hubs such as London, Amsterdam, Paris and Madrid, and use them to maintain the flow of money abroad. |
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| title | Huguenots, Jacobites, prisoners and the challenge of military remittances in early modern warfare |
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