Scholars long have examined the early modern European business of war – the recruitment, supply, and payment of combatants by non-native contractors. With such attention on who conducted this commerce, however, scholars have ignored where the business of war took place. As Peter Wilson and Marianne Klerk recently have argued in this journal, war business was often conducted in politically autonomous cities. This article takes their findings further by showing how naval contractors and army victuallers conducted the business of war in substantially different spatial settings in one fiscal-military hub, Genoa, during one conflict, the War of Spanish Succession.

长期以来，学者们一直在研究早期现代欧洲的战争业务——非本土承包商对战斗人员的招募、供应和支付。然而，由于如此关注谁进行了这种贸易，学者们忽略了战争业务发生的地方。正如 Peter Wilson 和 Marianne Klerk 最近在本期刊中所争论的那样，战争业务通常是在政治自治的城市进行的。本文进一步展示了他们的发现，展示了在一场冲突（西班牙继承战争）期间，海军承包商和陆军粮食供应商如何在一个财政军事中心热那亚的截然不同的空间环境中开展战争业务。