Transnational soldiers
| Titel: | Transnational soldiers : foreign military enlistment in the modern era |
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| Beteiligt: | ; |
| Veröffentlicht: | Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 |
| Umfang: | xi, 263 pages. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 0230319688 ; 9780230319684 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
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- List of Tables
- p. vii
- Acknowledgements
- p. viii
- Notes on Contributors
- p. ix
- 1
- Introduction: Transnational Military Service since the Eighteenth Century
- p. 1
- Section I
- Re-examining the Decline of Mercenary Armies, 1776-1815
- 2
- Desperate for Soldiers: The Recruitment of German Prisoners of War during the American War of Independence, 1776-83
- p. 15
- 3
- German Auxiliary Troops in the British and Dutch East India Companies
- p. 32
- 4
- The Politics of Foreign Recruitment in Britain during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
- p. 50
- Section II
- Colonial Military Mobilization
- 5
- The Military Marketplace in India, 1850-60
- p. 69
- 6
- Recruitment Policies and Recruitment Experiences in the French Foreign Legion
- p. 87
- 7
- 'They Had the Sea in Their Blood': Caymanian Naval Volunteers in the Second World War
- p. 105
- Section III
- After Empire: Flows of Military Talent
- 8
- From Imperial Soldiers to National Guardians: German and Lithuanian Volunteers after the Great War, 1918-19
- p. 127
- 9
- Transnational Flows of Military Talent: The Contrasting Experiences of Burma and Thailand since the 1940s
- p. 145
- 10
- Of Local Identities and Transnational Conflict: The Katangese Gendarmes and Central-Southern Africa's Forty-Years War, 1960-99
- p. 160
- Section IV
- Ideology, Adventure, Coercion
- 11
- 'Strangers, Mercenaries, Heretics, Scoffers, Polluters': Volunteering for the British Auxiliary Legion in Spain, 1835
- p. 181
- 12
- British Red Shirts: A History of the Garibaldi Volunteers (1860)
- p. 202
- 13
- Getting There: Enlistment Considerations and the Recruitment Networks of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War
- p. 219
- 14
- Fighting in Three Uniforms: Soviet POWs in World War Two
- p. 233
- 15
- Conclusions: Jihadists, Diasporas and Professional Contractors - The Resurgence of Non-state Recruitment since the 1980s
- p. 250
- Further Reading
- p. 257
- Index
- p. 258
