Arming the state :  military conscription in the Middle East and Central Asia, 1775-1925 / 
edited by Erik J. Zürcher. 
 - London ;  I.B. Tauris ;  Distributed by St. Martin's Press,  1999. 
 - 168 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> Introduction : conscription and resistance : the historical context /  Ottoman military recruitment strategies in the late eighteenth century /  The manning of the Ottoman navy in the heyday of sail (1660-1850) /  The nation and its deserters : conscription in Mehmed Ali's Egypt /  The Ottoman conscription system in theory and practice /  Taking care of soldiers' families : the Ottoman State and the Muinsiz aile Maasi /  Reorganizing violence : traditional recruitment and conscription in Ottoman Syria /  Bosnian resistance against conscription in the nineteenth century /  The Central Asian revolt of 1916 /  Conscription and popular resistance in Iran (1925-1941) /  Jan Lucassen & Erik Jan Zürcher --  Virginia Aksan --  Daniel Panzac, --  Khaled Fahmy --  Erik Jan Zürcher --  Nicole A.N.M. Van Os --  Dick Douwes --  Odile Moreau --  Sergei Kudryashev --  Stephanie Cronin. 
<br/><br/> "Presents a fresh approach to our understanding of conscription -- the main form of military recruitment during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>186064404X 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>International Institute of Social History
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>Geschichte 1775-1925. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Draft
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Middle East--Armed forces.<br/>Middle East--History, Military.<br/>Middle East--History<br/>Asia, Central--History<br/>Asia, Central--History, Military.<br/>Asia, Central--Armed forces.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History<br/>Military history
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>UB345.M628  / A75 1999