Fighting for a Living : : A Comparative Study of Military Labour 1500-2000 / / ed. by Erik-Jan Zürcher.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Aksan, Virginia H.,; Amersfoort, Herman,; Bailey, Beth,; Beşikçi, Mehmet,; Hippler, Thomas,; Johnson, Robert,; Kaya, S. Yelda,; Kolff, Dirk H.A.,; Leonhard, Jörn,; Miller, James,; Moll-Murata, Christine,; Robinson, David M.,; Rovinello, Marco,; Roy, Kaushik,; Sikora, Michael,; Tallett, Frank,; Theobald, Ulrich,; Veinstein, Gilles,; Way, Peter,; Wirtschafter, Elise Kimerling,; Zürcher, Erik-Jan,
• HerausgeberIn: Zürcher, Erik-Jan,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2013]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Work around the Globe: Historical Comparisons ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (688 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Military Labor In China, C. 1500 -- From The Mamluks To The Mansabdars -- On The Ottoman Janissaries (Fourteenth-Nineteenth Centuries) -- Soldiers In Western Europe, C. 1500-1790 -- The Scottish Mercenary As A Migrant Labourer In Europe, 1550-1650 -- Change And Continuity In Mercenary Armies: Central Europe, 1650-1750 -- Peasants Fighting For A Living In Early Modern North India -- “True To Their Salt” -- “The Scum Of Every County, The Refuse Of Mankind” -- Mobilization Of Warrior Populations In The Ottoman Context, 1750-1850 -- Military Employment In Qing Dynasty China -- Military Service And The Russian Social Order, 1649-1861 -- The French Army, 1789-1914 -- The Dutch Army In Transition -- The Draft And Draftees In Italy, 1861-1914 -- Nation-Building, War Experiences, And European Models -- Mobilizing Military Labor In The Age Of Total War -- Soldiering As Work -- Private Contractors In War From The 1990S To The Present -- Collective Bibliography -- Notes On Contributors