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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zürcher, Erik Jan.

Contributor:

Zürcher, Erik Jan, editor.

Series:

Work around the globe ; v. 1.

Work around the globe ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Recruiting and enlistment--History--Case studies.

Recruiting and enlistment.

Armed Forces--Personnel management--History--Case studies.

Armed Forces.

Military history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (688 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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.

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020).

Includes bibliographical references.

CC BY

ISBN:

1-04-078512-3

1-003-69545-0

1-04-078939-0

90-485-1726-5

9781003695455

OCLC:

994605677