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’A man of particular ability’: A Jewish-Genoese military contractor in the fiscal-military system
Business History ( IF 0.800 ) Pub Date : 2021-05-13 , DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2021.1907569
Michael Martoccio 1
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Abstract

In recent years, scholars have explored the pivotal role Jewish merchants played in feeding and arming European armies from 1500 to 1800. Yet they have ignored the problems these merchants faced when they cast outside national borders to urban centres far from the battlefield, a multi-national mobilisation of resources known as the ‘fiscal-military system’. This article uses a case-study of one Jewish merchant, Jacob Levi, from the port of Genoa to explore the essential brokerage role of ethnic-religious minorities in the early modern fiscal-military system. With knowhow built through his private businesses as well as a network of his co-religious, Levi became one of the most important suppliers of grain for the Bourbon army of northern Italy from 1702 to 1706. But foodstuffs did not transit alone; as Levi’s records show, other war matériel accompanied grain, none more volatile than the at-least 17,000 barrels of gunpowder that Levi transited through the port in these years.



中文翻译:

'有特殊才能的人':财政军事系统中的犹太人-吉诺斯人的军事承包商

摘要

近年来,学者们探索了犹太商人在1500年至1800年间养活和武装欧洲军队中所起的关键作用。然而,他们却忽略了这些商人在国家边界外逃往远离战场的城市中心时所面临的问题。全国动员资源被称为“财政-军事系统”。本文以热那亚港口的一位犹太商人雅各布·列维(Jacob Levi)为例,研究了早期现代财政军事体系中少数民族宗教的基本经纪作用。通过他的私人企业积累的专业知识以及与他的共同宗教网络,李维斯从1702年到1706年成为意大利北部波旁军队最重要的谷物供应商之一。如李维斯的记录所示,其他战争物料伴有谷物,这些年来,李维(Levi)通过港口转运的火药至少为17,000桶,没有什么比这更易挥发的了。

更新日期:2021-05-13
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