Fighting for a Living : A Comparative Study of Military Labour 1500-2000 /

Fighting for a Living : A Comparative Study of Military Labour 1500-2000 /

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"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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Other Authors: Zürcher, Erik Jan (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Recruiting and enlistment.
Armed Forces > Vocational guidance.
HISTORY > General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
Forces armees > Orientation professionnelle > Histoire > Études de cas.
Recrutement des armees > Histoire > Études de cas.
Armed Forces > Vocational guidance > History > Case studies.
Recruiting and enlistment > History > Case studies.
United States.
Middle East.
Europe.
Asia.
Asie > Forces armees > Orientation professionnelle.
Europe > Forces armees > Orientation professionnelle.
Asia > Armed Forces > Vocational guidance.
Middle East > Armed Forces > Vocational guidance.
United States > Armed Forces > Vocational guidance.
Europe > Armed Forces > Vocational guidance.
History.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
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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

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