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Record Nr.

UNINA9910140262003321

Autore

Zürcher Erik-Jan

Titolo

Fighting for a living : a comparative history of military labour 1500-2000 / / edited by Erik-Jan Zürcher [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, 2013

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2013

ISBN

90-485-1726-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (688 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Work around the globe ; ; volume 1

Classificazione

89.82

15.06

15.08

NK 7010

8

Disciplina

355.0092

Soggetti

Recruiting and enlistment - History

Armed Forces - Personnel management - History

Military history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.