Mercantilist Ideology versus Administrative Pragmatism: The Supply of Shipbuilding Timber in Eighteenth-Century Spain

IF 0.2 3区 历史学 Q2 HISTORY War & Society Pub Date : 2020-12-10 DOI:10.1080/07292473.2021.1860320
R. Torres-Sánchez
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The mobilisation of resources for warfare has traditionally been analysed as an economic and logistic problem. There are, however, other factors like politics or ideology that might also determine the contractor state’s level of efficiency. Drawing on an investigation of how Spain solved its eighteenth-century shipbuilding timber supply needs, we look at how a given mercantilist-leaning political outlook affected the provision of material, with the government turning solely to national production and suppliers. The aim of this article is to analyse the timber supply policy and, therein, the uneasy alliance of a mercantilist ideology with administrative pragmatism. We conclude from this that the Spanish state’s mercantilist ideas ran like a thread through its supply policies; at the same time, paradoxically, the state was the party responsible for most breaches of this policy. These breaches were usually caused by a growing awareness of the advantage of bringing in foreign contractors. The study of the supply of shipbuilding timber shows that foreign contractors, Dutch and merchants from the Baltic, offered not only lower prices but also greater distribution efficiency, while also helping the state to strengthen its sovereignty and authority. The collaboration between the state and the contractors turned mercantilist ideas, in actual practice, into a mere Utopia.
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重商主义意识形态与行政实用主义:18世纪西班牙造船木材的供应
战争资源的调动传统上被分析为经济和后勤问题。然而,政治或意识形态等其他因素也可能决定承包国家的效率水平。通过对西班牙如何解决其18世纪造船木材供应需求的调查,我们来看看一个特定的重商主义倾向的政治前景是如何影响材料供应的,政府只转向国内生产和供应商。本文的目的是分析木材供应政策,以及其中重商主义意识形态与行政实用主义的不稳定联盟。我们由此得出结论,西班牙政府的重商主义思想像一条线一样贯穿于其供应政策;与此同时,矛盾的是,国家对大多数违反这一政策的行为负有责任。这些违规行为通常是由于人们越来越意识到引进外国承包商的好处。对造船木材供应的研究表明,外国承包商,荷兰人和来自波罗的海的商人,不仅提供了更低的价格,而且提供了更高的分销效率,同时也帮助国家加强了主权和权威。国家和承包商之间的合作在实际操作中把重商主义思想变成了纯粹的乌托邦。
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