War, Capital, And The Dutch State (1588-1795)

Pepijn Brandon, Ph.D. (2013), University of Amsterdam, is a prize-winning historian of the Dutch Republic. He holds positions at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the International Institute of Social History.

"This groundbreaking book provides a fascinating and knowledgeable case-study of the actual interplay of three of the main driving forces in the history of the early modern era: capitalism, state-formation and war and has major implications for many general claims that have been made with regard to their history and the history of the Dutch Republic."—Prof. dr. Peer Vries, University of Vienna "The publisher should be commended for making this study available to a large English-speaking audience, which it certainly deserves. Brandon's contribution is a type of economic history that has unfortunately fallen out of favor in recent decades, replaced by reams of cultural history, so one can only hope that this notable study will inspire similar social science research into the complex symbiosis of states and capital accumulation elsewhere. Every university's history department should acquire a copy for its own library collections."—Eric Mielants, Science & Society, Vol. 48:4 (2018): 592-594 "Brandon’s study is not only well researched, it is highly convincing and will undoubtedly lead to a reconsideration of the forces at play in the development of the early modern state."—Donald J. Harreld, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. LXX:3 (2017): 1122-1123 "War, Capital, and the Dutch State (1588-1795) is a highly innovative piece of scholarship which successfully binds together the main debates relevant to understand the role of capital and war in state formation. Its value therefore reaches out far beyond the Netherlands."—Louis Sicking, Forum Navale, Vol. 73:4 (2017): 131-133 "This research clearly makes an important contribution to our thinking about warfare and state formation."—Christiaan van Bochove, Continuity and Change, Vol. 32:2 (2017): 289-291

• List of Charts and TablesTranslations of Frequently Used Dutch TermsNote on CurrencyIntroductionDutch War-Making and State-Making: Three Solutions to a RiddleTypologies of the Early Modern State FormThe Dutch Cycle of AccumulationThe Federal-Brokerage State and its ‘Historic Bloc’Content and Structure of the Book .Chapter 1 The Making of the Federal-Brokerage State1.1 The Dutch Revolt and the Establishment of the State1.2 Types of Brokerage 1: Merchant Warriors1.3 Types of Brokerage 2: Merchants as Administrators1.4 Types of Brokerage 3: Financial Intermediaries in Troop Payments1.5 Political and Ideological Foundations of the Federal-Brokerage StateConclusionsChapter 2 Merchant Companies, Naval Power, and Trade Protection2.1 The Naval Revolution and the Challenge to Dutch Trade2.2 A Unified State Company for Colonial Trade?2.3 The VOC and the Navy from Symbiosis to Division of Labour2.4 The WIC between Private Trade and State Protection2.5 European Commercial Directorates as Protection Lobbies2.6 Protection Costs and Merchant InterestsConclusionsChapter 3 Production, Supply, and Labour Relations at the Naval Shipyards3.1 Capitalist Rationality, Accounting, and the Naval Revolution3.2 Personal Networks and Market Practices3.3 Different Products, Different Systems of Supply3.4 Naval Shipyards as Centres of Production3.5 Shipyards and their Workforce3.6 Admiralty Boards and the Labour Market3.7 Combination, Coordination, and Control3.8 Of Time, Theft, and Chips3.9 Neptune’s Trident and Athena’s GiftsConclusionsChapter 4 Troop Payments, Military Soliciting, and the World of Finance4.1 From Disorder to Regulation4.2 A Golden Age of Military Soliciting4.3 Two Careers in Military Finance4.4 The Daily Affairs of a Financial Middleman4.5 Networks of Credit and Influence4.6 Military Soliciting in the Age of FinancialisationConclusionsChapter 5 The Structural Crisis of the Federal-Brokerage State5.1 The Rise and Limits of Reform Agendas5.2 Warring Companies and the Debate over Free Trade5.3 Admiralty Boards at the Centre of the Storm5.4 From Citizens’ Militias to the Batavian Legion5.5 The Afterlife of the Federal-Brokerage StateConclusionsConclusionAnnex 1 Holland Members of the Amsterdam Admiralty BoardAnnex 2 Zeeland Members of the Zeeland Admiralty BoardAnnex 3 Income and Expenditure of the Amsterdam Admiralty: Steps from Figures in ‘Borderel’ to ReconstructionSources and BibliographyIndex