Fighting for a living a comparative history of military labour 1500-2000

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, a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Zürcher, Erik Jan, editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press 2013.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Work around the globe ; v. 1.
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Sumario: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.
Notas:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020).
Descripción Física:1 online resource (688 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Also available in print form
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9789048517268