Transnational Soldiers : Foreign Military Enlistment in the Modern Era / edited by N. Arielli, B. Collins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arielli, Nir, 1975-

Collins, Bruce, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--History.

Europe.

World history.

History, Modern.

Military history.

European History.

World History, Global and Transnational History.

Modern History.

Military History.

Local Subjects:

European History.

World History, Global and Transnational History.

Modern History.

Military History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XI, 263 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2013.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Warfare in the modern era has often been described in terms of national armies fighting national wars. This volume challenges the view by examining transnational aspects of military mobilization from the eighteenth century to the present. Truly global in scope, it offers an alternative way of reading the military history of the last 250 years.

Contents:

Introduction: transnational military service since the eighteenth century / Nir Arielli and Bruce Collins

Re-examining the decline of mercenary armies, 1776-1815

Desperate for soldiers: the recruitment of German prisoners of war during the American War of Independence, 1776-1783 / Daniel Krebs

German auxiliary troops in the British and Dutch East India Companies / Chen Tzoref Ashkenazi

The politics of foreign recruitment in Britain during the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars / Kevin Linch

Colonial military mobilization

The military marketplace in India, 1840-60 / Bruce Collins

Recruitment policies and recruitment experiences in the French Foreign legion / Christian Koller

"They had the sea in their blood": Caymanian naval volunteers in the Second World War / Daniel Spence 132

After empire: flows of military talent

From imperial soldiers to national guardians: German and Lithuanian volunteers after the Great War, 1918-1919 / Tomas Balkelis

Transnational flows of military talent: the contrasting experiences of Burma and Thailand since the 1940s / Nicholas Farrelly

Of local identities and transnational conflict: the Katangese gendarmes and central-southern Africa's forty-years war, 1960-1999 / Miles Larmer

Ideology, adventure, coercion

"Strangers, mercenaries, heretics, scoffers, polluters": volunteering for the British auxiliary legion in Spain, 1835 / Martin Robson

British red shirts: a history of the Garibaldi volunteers (1860) / Marcella Pellegrino Sutcliffe

Getting there: enlistment considerations and the recruitment networks of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War / Nir Arielli

Fighting in three uniforms: Soviet POWs in World War Two / Donal O'Sullivan

Conclusions

Jihadists, diasporas and professional contractors: the resurgence of non-state recruitment since the 1980s / Nir Arielli and Bruce Collins.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137296634

1137296631