Jaakko Björklund- Master of Arts
- Doctoral researcher at University of Helsinki
Jaakko Björklund
- Master of Arts
- Doctoral researcher at University of Helsinki
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Introduction
My research focuses on early modern military history, ranging from the history of military theory to the broader economic and social dimensions of warfare. Recently I have published articles on transnational recruitment networks and Swedish war financing. My upcoming dissertation examines the role of military entrepreneurship in the Swedish army during the Ingrian War (1609-1617).
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The second half of the sixteenth century was a period of intermittent war for the fledgling Swedish empire. Intensive and protracted fighting on multiple fronts stimulated a steady growth in the size of the military establishment. At the same time, the rapidly developing art of war and Sweden's shift from local defence to overseas wars of conquest...
The article illustrates the importance of business diplomacy practised by free agents, who navigated and negotiated between northern European empires for widespread commercial, legal and administrative developments. Abraham Cabiljau’s career is an example from the early modern Swedish empire, which stands on the threshold of a new era. In the Swedi...
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 multination...
This paper presents a holistic picture of a major operation undertaken by Sweden at the start of the seventeenth century to recruit foreign troops to fight in its wars. For this purpose, empirical data has been collected for all of the thirty-two identified recruitments undertaken between 1605–1610 from Western Europe. This data includes previously...
The 17th and early 18th centuries saw a marked decrease in the number of times battles were fought as compared to other military operations undertaken. Historians have interpreted this as stemming from a number of practical complications in supply, logistics and command structures, as well as changing mentalities. What is less clear, is how well an...
