Fighting for a Living : Volume 1: A Comparative History of Military Labour 1500–2000
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Fighting for a Living : Volume 1: A Comparative History of Military Labour 1500–2000

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Fighting for a Living : Volume 1: A Comparative History of Military Labour 1500–2000

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Fighting for a Living investigates the circumstances that have produced starkly different systems of recruiting and employing soldiers in different parts of the globe over the last 500 years. It does so on the basis of a wide range of case studies taken from Europe, Africa, America, the Middle East and Asia.The novelty of "Fighting for a Living" is that it is not military history in the traditional sense (concentrating at wars and battles or on military technology) but that it looks at military service and warfare as forms of labour, and at the soldiers as workers. Military employment offers excellent opportunities for this kind of international comparison. Where many forms of human activity are restricted by the conditions of nature or the stage of development of a given society, organized violence is ubiquitous. Soldiers, in one form or another, are always part of the picture, in any period and in every region. Nevertheless, Fighting for a Living is the first study to undertake a systematic comparative analysis of military labour. It therefore speaks to two distinct, and normally quite separate, communities: that of labour historians and that of military historians. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. Understanding changes in military recruitment and employment worldwide
  4. Erik-Jan Zürcher
  5. Military labor in China, c. 1500
  6. David M. Robinson
  7. From the mamluks to the mansabdars
  8. A social history of military service in South Asia, c. 1500 to c. 1650
  9. Kaushik Roy
  10. On the Ottoman janissaries (fourteenth-nineteenth centuries)
  11. Gilles Veinstein
  12. Soldiers in Western Europe, c. 1500-1790
  13. Frank Tallett
  14. The Scottish mercenary as a migrant labourer in Europe, 1550-1650
  15. James Miller
  16. Change and continuity in mercenary armies: Central Europe, 1650-1750
  17. Michael Sikora
  18. Peasants fighting for a living in early modern North India
  19. Dirk H.A. Kolff
  20. “True to their salt”
  21. Mechanisms for recruiting and managing military labour in the army of the East India Company during the Carnatic Wars in India
  22. Robert Johnson
  23. “The scum of every county, the refuse of mankind”
  24. Recruiting the British Army in the eighteenth century
  25. Peter Way
  26. Mobilization of warrior populations in the Ottoman context, 1750-1850
  27. Virginia H. Aksan
  28. Military employment in Qing dynasty China
  29. Christine Moll-Murata and Ulrich Theobald
  30. Military service and the Russian social order, 1649-1861
  31. Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter
  32. The French army, 1789-1914
  33. Volunteers, pressed soldiers, and conscripts
  34. Thomas Hippler
  35. The Dutch army in transition
  36. From all-volunteer force to cadre-militia army, 1795-1830
  37. Herman Amersfoort
  38. The draft and draftees in Italy, 1861-1914
  39. Marco Rovinello
  40. Nation-building, war experiences, and European models
  41. The rejection of conscription in Britain
  42. Jörn Leonhard
  43. Mobilizing military labor in the age of total war
  44. Ottoman conscription before and during the Great War
  45. Mehmet Beşikçi
  46. Soldiering as work
  47. The all-volunteer force in the United States
  48. Beth Bailey
  49. Private contractors in war from the 1990s to the present
  50. A review essay
  51. S. Yelda Kaya
  52. Collective bibliography
  53. Notes on Contributors