Philip Burlamachi
A Financier of the Thirty Years' War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9726973 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A V Judges, Α V Judges (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1926 |
| Issue | 18 |
| Pages | 285 |
| Publication date | 1926-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2547816 |
| OpenAlex | W2320573114 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
A STUDY of the succession of British interventions during the first half of the Thirty Years' War serves only to add to the general impression of indecisive muddle conveyed by a survey of the war as a whole. For the reasons for this we need not seek far. In the first place English diplomatic policy fluctuated more widely, if anything, from year to year and from month to month than that of any of the other interests involved. Secondly, no final determination was ever reached by the English Government of the day as to the relative importance of land and sea warfare. Finally, and most important of all as affecting the English conduct of the struggle, the sinews of war were severely limited in power and ever unequal to the double tension of an amphibious war. It is rather owing to lack of means than to inefficient administration in the responsible departments that our attempts to intervene in and on the fringe of the struggle came successively to grief. For there seems little reason to doubt that had the Government been able to draw upon the resources of a united nation and strictly limited the scope of its activities, the story would have been one of success rather than failure. As it was, the projects were too ambitious, and a shaky dependence was placed upon the proceeds of unwillingly yielded and often dubious taxation and upon the windfalls of chance. After many years an unforeseen decision was forced, not at a conference table in Germany, but on a scaffold in Whitehall. The unsuccessful finance which largely governed the part taken by England in the struggle is so closely connected with a certain city merchant and war-contractor that a consideration of his career is not without interest. Philip Burlamachi on first acquaintance would seem to the historian pre-eminently to belong to the mysterious brotherhood of cosmopolitan finance beloved of the romanticist. French by birth,' though of Italian stock, he appears to have laid the
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| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1960 - 2016 (57) |
| Highly cited | No |