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Title Fighting for a living : a comparative history of military labour 1500-2000 / edited by Erik-Jan Zürcher
Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (688 pages) : illustration
Series Work around the globe ; volume 1
Work around the globe ; v. 1.
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
Summary "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 volume is not military history in the traditional sense, but looks at military service and warfare as forms of labour, and at soldiers as workers. Military employment offers excellent opportunities for international comparison: armies as a form of organized violence are ubiquitous, and soldiers, in one form or another, are always part of the picture, in any period and in every region. Fighting for a living is the first study to undertake a systematic comparative analysis of military labour. It therefore will be of interest to both labour historians and military historians, as well as to sociologists, political scientists, and other social scientists"--Page 4 of cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 639-685)
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (OAPEN, viewed April 9, 2014)
Subject Recruiting and enlistment -- History -- Case studies
Armed Forces -- Vocational guidance -- History -- Case studies
HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
HISTORY -- General.
Armed Forces -- Vocational guidance
Recruiting and enlistment
SUBJECT Europe -- Armed Forces -- Vocational guidance
United States -- Armed Forces -- Vocational guidance. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139903
Middle East -- Armed Forces -- Vocational guidance
Asia -- Armed Forces -- Vocational guidance
Subject Asia
Europe
Middle East
United States
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
Author Zürcher, Erik Jan, editor.
ISBN 9789048517251
9048517257
Other Titles Comparative history of military labour 1500-2000