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  • Civilians and Military Supply in Early Modern Finland

    Petri Talvitie, Juha-Matti Granqvist (eds.)

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    During the early modern centuries, gunpowder and artillery revolutionized warfare, and armies grew rapidly. To sustain their new military machines, the European rulers turned increasingly to their civilian subjects, making all levels of civil society serve the needs of the military.

    This volume examines civil-military interaction in the multinational Swedish Realm in 1550–1800, with a focus on its eastern part, present-day Finland, which was an important supply region and battlefield bordered by Russia. Sweden was one of the frontrunners of the Military Revolution in the 16th and 17th centuries. The crown was eager to adapt European models, but its attempts to outsource military supply to civilians in a realm lacking people, capital, and resources were not always successful.

    This book aims at explaining how the army utilized civilians – burghers, peasants, entrepreneurs – to provision itself, and how the civil population managed to benefit from the cooperation. The chapters of the book illustrate the different ways in which Finnish civilians took part in supplying war efforts, e.g. how the army made deals with businessmen to finance its military campaigns and how town and country people were obliged to lodge and feed soldiers.

    The European armies’ dependence on civilian maintenance has received growing scholarly attention in recent years, and Civilians and Military Supply in Early Modern Finland brings a Nordic perspective to the debate.

    Petri Talvitie, PhD, is Academy Research Fellow at the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Helsinki. 

    Juha-Matti Granqvist, PhD, is Visiting Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, History and Art Studies at the University of Helsinki. 

    The contributors of the book are historians specialized in early modern Finnish and Swedish society.

    Correction notice

    One correction has been made to Chapter 4 of this book: Talvitie, Petri. The Sales of Crown Farms and State Finances 1580–1808. Footnote 1 has been added to reflect that the chapter is partly based on an earlier work (Talvitie 2020), thus changing the original numbering of the other chapter footnotes by one. Said publication has been added to the chapter’s bibliography. Original release date: June 22, 2021. The publication has been reloaded in its corrected form on March 8, 2022. We regret any inconvenience this may have caused.

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      Review from 31 Dec 2023: Northern Studies, vol. 54 (2023), p. 94–96.
      Book Review: Petri Talvitie and Juha-Matti Granqvist (eds): Civilians and Military Supply in Early Modern Finland, Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 2021.

      Jack Abernethy

      Summary: Civilians and Military Supply in Early Modern Finland is an excellent case-study of civilian–military interaction and the availability of the volume online through open access is extremely commendable. While the book will obviously appeal to those who study early modern Finland or Sweden, all those who study early modern military history, generally, will benefit from its ideas, research, and methodology.

      The full review cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions.

      Review from 29 Dec 2022: 1700-tal: Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol 19 (2022)
      Petri Talvitie & Juha-Matti Granqvist (red.), Civilians and Military Supply in Early Modern Finland (Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 2021). 305 s.

      Patrik Winton

      Summary: Sammanfattningsvis presenteras i antologin flera intressanta och viktiga resul-tat om relationen mellan den svenska statsmakten och olika civila aktörer under tidigmodern tid. Inte minst övertygas man som läsare av argumentationen för att staten behövde involvera både bönder och borgare i resursmobiliseringen.

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      Review from 16 Sep 2022: Scandinavian Economic History Review
      Civilians and military supply in early modern Finland

      Sergio Tonatiuh Serrano Hernandez

      Summary: By changing the analytical scale from the macro phenomenon to the micro-level of analysis and providing a wealth of empirical data, the authors challenge some mainstream interpretations and enrich our understanding of the complex social interactions needed to organise and mobilise armies in the early modern era.

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      Review from 23 May 2022: International Journal of Military History and Historiography Vol 42 (2022), pp. 219–221
      Book review of Talvitie, Petri, and Juha-Matti Granqvist (eds.): Civilians and Military Supply in Early Modern Finland (Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 2021), 296 pp., isbn 978-952-369-039-4.

      Olli Bäckström

      Summary: All the chapters in the anthology are based on meticulous archival research. Historiographical discussion has been concentrated in the introduction and epilogue; a practical solution which enhances the readability of this indispensable anthology.

      The full review cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions.

      Review from 26 Apr 2022: Historisk Tidskrift för Finland Vol 107 Nr 1 (2022): 1/2022
      Book Review: Petri Talvitie & Juha-Matti Granqvist (eds.), Civilians and Military Supply in Early Modern Finland

      Nils Erik Villstrand

      Summary: Sammantaget demonstrerar de ändå på ett övertygande sätt hur mycket militärhistorisk forskning kring ett område som låg i det tidigmoderna Europas periferi har att erbjuda också en internationell läsekrets.

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      Review from 03 Mar 2022: Yliopistolehti 2/2022, p. 56
      Book Review: Kruunun huollossa

      Aleksi Ahtola

      Summary: Englanninkielisyys tuonee teokselle lukijoita kansainvälisesti, mikä on tervetullutta. Soisin kuitenkin, että teos käännettäisiin molemmille kotimaisille kielille. Artikkelikokoelma on yksinkertaisesti niin ansiokas ja näkökulmat monipuolisia, että mahdollisimman laajan kotimaisen lukijankunnan tulisi saada nauttia sen sisällöstä.

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      Review from 01 Feb 2022: Aikakauskirja Genos 2/2022
      Relationen mellan civilt och militärt i det förmoderna Finland

      Lars Ericson Wolke

      Summary: Sammantaget ger de olika studierna en rad värdefulla insikter i krigsförsörjningens uppgifter och svårigheter, liksom dess totala beroende av det civila samhället.

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    Talvitie P. & Granqvist J. (eds.) 2021. Civilians and Military Supply in Early Modern Finland. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-10
    Talvitie, P. and Granqvist, J.-M., 2021. Civilians and Military Supply in Early Modern Finland. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-10
    Talvitie, Pand J-M Granqvist. Civilians and Military Supply in Early Modern Finland. Helsinki University Press, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-10
    Talvitie, P., & Granqvist, J.-M. (2021). Civilians and Military Supply in Early Modern Finland. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-10
    Talvitie, Petri, and Juha-Matti Granqvist. 2021. Civilians and Military Supply in Early Modern Finland. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-10




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    Published on June 22, 2021

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