Fighting for a living
| Titel: | Fighting for a living : a comparative study of military labour ; 1500 - 2000 / ed. by Erik Jan Zürcher |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2013 |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Work around the globe ; 1 |
| ISBN: | 9789089644527 |
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- Introduction: Understanding changes in military recruitment and employment worldwide
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- Military labour in China, circa 1500
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- From Mamluks to Mansabdars: a social history of military service in South Asia, circa 1500 to circa 1650
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- On the Ottoman Janissaries*
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- Soldiers in Western Europe, circa 1500-1790
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- The Scottish mercenary as migrant labourer in Europe, 1550-1650
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- Change and continuity in mercenary armies: Central Europe, 1650-1750
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- Peasants fighting for a living in early modern North India
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- "True to their salt": Mechansims for recruiting and managing military labour in the army of the East India Company during the Carnatic Wars in India
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- The scum of every country, the refuse of mankind: recruiting the British Army in the eighteenth century
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- Mobilization of warrior populations in the Ottoman context, 1750-1850
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- Military employment in Qing dynasty China
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- Military service and the Russian social order, 1649-1861
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- The French army 1789-1914: Volunteers, pressed soldiers and conscripts
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- The Dutch army in transition: from an all-volunteer force to a cadre-militia army, 1795-1830
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- Draft and draftees in Italy, 1861-1914
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- Italian colonial troops in East Africa
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- Nation building, war experiences and European models: the rejection of conscription in Britain
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- Mobilizing military labour in the age of total war: Ottoman conscription before and during the Great war
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- Soldiering as work: the all-volunteer force in the United States of America
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- Private contractors from the nineteen nineties to the present. A review essay
