In this Book
- Fighting for a Living: A Comparative Study of Military Labour 1500-2000
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Amsterdam University Press
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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.
Table of Contents
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- Military labor in China, c. 1500
- pp. 43-80
- Soldiers in Western Europe, c. 1500-1790
- pp. 135-168
- Military employment in Qing dynasty China
- pp. 353-392
- The draft and draftees in Italy, 1861-1914
- pp. 479-518
- Collective bibliography
- pp. 639-686
- Notes on Contributors
- pp. 687-689
Additional Information
ISBN
9789048517251
Related ISBN(s)
9789089644527
MARC Record
OCLC
1111606747
Pages
704
Launched on MUSE
2019-08-09
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND
Copyright
2014