TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zürcher,Erik Jan
TI  - Fighting for a living: a comparative history of military labour 1500-2000 
T2  - Work around the globe
SN  - 9048517265
AV  - UB320 .F58 2013
U1  - 355.0092 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
KW  - Recruiting and enlistment
KW  - History
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - Personnel management
KW  - Military history
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020); Includes bibliographical references; 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; Also available in print form
N2  - 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
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