Fighting for a Living : A Comparative Study of Military Labour 1500-2000 /
"Fighting for a living investigates the circumstances that have produced starkly different systems of recruiting and employing soldiers in different parts of the globe, over the last 500 years. Offering a wide range of case studies taken from Europe, America, the Middle East and Asia, this volu...
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Amsterdam University Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction / Zürcher, Erik-Jan
- Military Labor In China, C. 1500 / Robinson, David M.
- From The Mamluks To The Mansabdars / Roy, Kaushik
- On The Ottoman Janissaries (Fourteenth-Nineteenth Centuries) / Veinstein, Gilles
- Soldiers In Western Europe, C. 1500-1790 / Tallett, Frank
- The Scottish Mercenary As A Migrant Labourer In Europe, 1550-1650 / Miller, James
- Change And Continuity In Mercenary Armies: Central Europe, 1650-1750 / Sikora, Michael
- Peasants Fighting For A Living In Early Modern North India / Kolff, Dirk H.A.
- "True To Their Salt" / Johnson, Robert
- "The Scum Of Every County, The Refuse Of Mankind" / Way, Peter
- Mobilization Of Warrior Populations In The Ottoman Context, 1750-1850 / Aksan, Virginia H.
- Military Employment In Qing Dynasty China / Moll-Murata, Christine / Theobald, Ulrich
- Military Service And The Russian Social Order, 1649-1861 / Wirtschafter, Elise Kimerling
- The French Army, 1789-1914 / Hippler, Thomas
- The Dutch Army In Transition / Amersfoort, Herman
- The Draft And Draftees In Italy, 1861-1914 / Rovinello, Marco
- Nation-Building, War Experiences, And European Models / Leonhard, Jörn
- Mobilizing Military Labor In The Age Of Total War / Beşikçi, Mehmet
- Soldiering As Work / Bailey, Beth
- Private Contractors In War From The 1990's To The Present / Kaya, S. Yelda
- Collective Bibliography
- Notes On Contributors