Fighting for a living : : a comparative history of military labour 1500-2000 /

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
TeilnehmendeR:
Zürcher, Erik Jan,
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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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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