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Fighting for a Living
A Comparative Study of Military Labour 1500-2000
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Edited by:
Erik-Jan Zürcher
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English
Published/Copyright:
2014
About this book
Though fighting is clearly hard work, historians have not paid much attention to warfare and military service as forms of labor. This collection does just that, bringing together the usually disparate fields of military and labor history. The contributors—including Robert Johnson, Frank Tallett, and Gilles Veinstein—undertake the first systematic comparative analysis of military labor across Europe, Africa, America, the Middle East, and Asia. In doing so, they explore the circumstances that have produced starkly different systems of recruiting and employing soldiers in different parts of the globe over the last five hundred years.
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Erik-Jan Zürcher is a fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and professor of Turkish studies at Leiden University.
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“Historians have long overlooked the labor involved in soldiering. But now, with the publication of Fighting for a Living, the world of military workers is brought to the forefront of scholarly inquiry. The editors throw a critical shining light on the nature of war and the nature of work for the millions of individuals who have contributed their labor, and often their lives, for the militaries of the world.”
— Nathan Wise, University of New England, AustraliaTopics
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A social history of military service in South Asia, c. 1500 to c. 1650 Kaushik Roy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Mechanisms for recruiting and managing military labour in the army of the East India Company during the Carnatic Wars in India Robert Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Recruiting the British Army in the eighteenth century Peter Way Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Volunteers, pressed soldiers, and conscripts Thomas Hippler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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From all-volunteer force to cadre-militia army, 1795-1830 Herman Amersfoort Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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The rejection of conscription in Britain Jörn Leonhard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Ottoman conscription before and during the Great War Mehmet Beşikçi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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The all-volunteer force in the United States Beth Bailey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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December 31, 2013
eBook ISBN:
9789048517251
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688
eBook ISBN:
9789048517251
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Professional and scholarly;
