Fighting for a Living : A Comparative Study 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. Offering a wide range of case studies taken from Europe, America, the Middle East and Asia, this volu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Zürcher, Erik Jan (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Recruiting and enlistment.
Armed Forces > Vocational guidance.
HISTORY > General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
Forces armees > Orientation professionnelle > Histoire > Études de cas.
Recrutement des armees > Histoire > Études de cas.
Armed Forces > Vocational guidance > History > Case studies.
Recruiting and enlistment > History > Case studies.
United States.
Middle East.
Europe.
Asia.
Asie > Forces armees > Orientation professionnelle.
Europe > Forces armees > Orientation professionnelle.
Asia > Armed Forces > Vocational guidance.
Middle East > Armed Forces > Vocational guidance.
United States > Armed Forces > Vocational guidance.
Europe > Armed Forces > Vocational guidance.
History.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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. Offering a wide range of case studies taken from Europe, America, the Middle East and Asia, this volume is not military history in the traditional sense, but looks at military service and warfare as forms of labour, and at soldiers as workers. Military employment offers excellent opportunities for international comparison: armies as a form of organized violence are ubiquitous, and soldiers, in one form or another, are always part of the picture, in any period and in every region. Fighting for a living is the first study to undertake a systematic comparative analysis of military labour. It therefore will be of interest to both labour historians and military historians, as well as to sociologists, political scientists, and other social scientists"--Page 4 of cover
Descripción Física:1 online resource (704 pages): illustration
ISBN:9789048517251
Acceso:Open Access

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