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Arming the state : military conscription in the Middle East and Central Asia, 1775-1925 / edited by Erik J. Zürcher.

Contributor(s): Zürcher, Erik JanMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London ; I.B. Tauris ; Distributed by St. Martin's Press, 1999. Description: 168 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 186064404XSubject(s): International Institute of Social History | Geschichte 1775-1925 | Draft | Middle East -- Armed forces | Middle East -- History, Military | Middle East -- History | Asia, Central -- History | Asia, Central -- History, Military | Asia, Central -- Armed forcesGenre/Form: History | Military historyLOC classification: UB345.M628 | A75 1999
Contents:
Introduction : conscription and resistance : the historical context / Jan Lucassen & Erik Jan Zürcher -- Ottoman military recruitment strategies in the late eighteenth century / Virginia Aksan -- The manning of the Ottoman navy in the heyday of sail (1660-1850) / Daniel Panzac, -- The nation and its deserters : conscription in Mehmed Ali's Egypt / Khaled Fahmy -- The Ottoman conscription system in theory and practice / Erik Jan Zürcher -- Taking care of soldiers' families : the Ottoman State and the Muinsiz aile Maasi / Nicole A.N.M. Van Os -- Reorganizing violence : traditional recruitment and conscription in Ottoman Syria / Dick Douwes -- Bosnian resistance against conscription in the nineteenth century / Odile Moreau -- The Central Asian revolt of 1916 / Sergei Kudryashev -- Conscription and popular resistance in Iran (1925-1941) / Stephanie Cronin.
Summary: "Presents a fresh approach to our understanding of conscription -- the main form of military recruitment during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."
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Books Books The BIAA David H. French Library
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Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : conscription and resistance : the historical context / Jan Lucassen & Erik Jan Zürcher -- Ottoman military recruitment strategies in the late eighteenth century / Virginia Aksan -- The manning of the Ottoman navy in the heyday of sail (1660-1850) / Daniel Panzac, -- The nation and its deserters : conscription in Mehmed Ali's Egypt / Khaled Fahmy -- The Ottoman conscription system in theory and practice / Erik Jan Zürcher -- Taking care of soldiers' families : the Ottoman State and the Muinsiz aile Maasi / Nicole A.N.M. Van Os -- Reorganizing violence : traditional recruitment and conscription in Ottoman Syria / Dick Douwes -- Bosnian resistance against conscription in the nineteenth century / Odile Moreau -- The Central Asian revolt of 1916 / Sergei Kudryashev -- Conscription and popular resistance in Iran (1925-1941) / Stephanie Cronin.

"Presents a fresh approach to our understanding of conscription -- the main form of military recruitment during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."