Military Migration and State Formation: The British Military Community in Seventeenth-Century Sweden

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Автор: Mary Elizabeth Ailes

Название: Military Migration and State Formation: The British Military Community in Seventeenth-Century Sweden

Издательство: University of Nebraska Press

Год: 2002

Формат: PDF

Страниц: 192

Размер: 95 Mb

Язык: English

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To participate in long-term warfare, expand their economies, and create strong armies, monarchs throughout Europe modernized their state apparatuses and in the process developed professional military administrations. Like other northern and eastern European countries that lacked the requisite population or resource base, Sweden relied on immigrants to supply the necessary technical skills and manpower to modernize its state apparatus and economy. In Military Migration and State Formation, Ailes focuses on British officers and their descendants in order to examine larger issues, including the role of the military in promoting elite migration, the opportunities that state building provided to elite foreigners, and the roles that immigrants played in promoting the expansion of the Swedish state.