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

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, a...

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Superior document:Work around the globe ; volume 1
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2013.
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Work around the globe ; v. 1.
Physical Description:1 online resource (688 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
Notes:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020).
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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 1990's To The Present /
Collective Bibliography --
Notes On Contributors
Summary: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.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9048517265
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: edited by Erik-Jan Zürcher.