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Title Fighting for a living : a comparative history of military labour 1500-2000 / edited by Erik-Jan Zürcher.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (688 pages) : illustration
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Series Work around the globe ; volume 1
Work around the globe ; v. 1.
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).
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (OAPEN, viewed April 9, 2014).
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 / Beikçi, 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
Subject Recruiting and enlistment -- History -- Case studies.
Armed Forces -- Vocational guidance -- History -- Case studies.
Europe -- Armed Forces -- Vocational guidance.
United States -- Armed Forces -- Vocational guidance.
Middle East -- Armed Forces -- Vocational guidance.
Asia -- Armed Forces -- Vocational guidance.
Recrutement des armées -- Histoire -- Études de cas.
Forces armées -- Orientation professionnelle -- Histoire -- Études de cas.
Europe -- Forces armées -- Orientation professionnelle.
Asie -- Forces armées -- Orientation professionnelle.
HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
HISTORY -- General.
Armed Forces -- Vocational guidance
Recruiting and enlistment
Asia https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxMpyjKQ9Jtm3jkjPBgKd
Europe https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxCxPbbk4CPJDQJb4r6rq
Middle East
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Indexed Term comparative history europe, asia, middle east
military recruitment
military employment
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Added Author Zürcher, Erik Jan, editor.
Added Title Comparative history of military labour 1500-2000
Other Form: Print version: Fighting for a living. A comparative study of military labour 1500-2000. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press 2013 9789089644527 (OCoLC)828187227
ISBN 9789048517251 (electronic bk.)
9048517257 (electronic bk.)
9789048517268
9048517265
9789089644527
9089644520
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GBVCP 1008661473
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GBVCP 865757534
NLAUP oai:aup:468640 http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/oai/aup narcis DGCNT
NZ1 15495998

 
    
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