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Civilians and Military Supply in Early Modern Finland

by Petri Talvitie , Juha-Matti Granqvist
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9789523690387
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Helsinki University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Helsinki University Press
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  • Pages: 314
  • Original Price: GBP 29.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 463 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Europe / Nordic Countries

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.

Granqvist, Juha-Matti: - Juha-Matti Granqvist, PhD, has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Helsinki. His research has focused on burghers and their economic, political and social role in early modern Finnish and Swedish society. His doctoral dissertation (2016) discussed the late 18th-century Helsinki burgher community, and he has recently co-authored History of Helsinki, volume 3 (1721-1808), published by City of Helsinki History Committee.

Talvitie, Petri: - Petri Talvitie, PhD, is currently Academy Research Fellow at the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Helsinki. His research interests include agrarian history, state formation, and the history of property rights in pre-industrial Scandinavia. Talvitie wrote his thesis (2013) on enclosure in 18th-century Finland, and his recent publications include a monograph on the sales of crown farms in Finland and Sweden (Finnish Literature Society, 2020).

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