Fighting for a Living
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...
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Amsterdam University Press
2021
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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-390432025-03-24T06:48:08Z Fighting for a Living Zürcher, Erik-Jan comparative history europe, asia, middle east military recruitment military employment thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history 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. 2021-02-10T15:01:15Z 2021-02-10T15:01:15Z 2018-06-27 23:55 2019-12-10 14:46:32 2020-04-01T14:48:08Z 2013 book 649958 468734 OCN: 876133152 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/37526 9789089644527 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/39043 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37526/3/468734.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33480/3/468734.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33480/3/468734.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33480/3/468734.pdf Amsterdam University Press 10.26530/OAPEN_468734 10.26530/OAPEN_468734 de2ecbe7-1037-4e96-8c3a-5a842d921e04 Knowledge Unlatched 9789089644527 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 690 Amsterdam open access |
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