Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Understanding Changes in Military Recruitment and Employment Worldwide
- Military Labor in China, c. 1500
- From the Mamluks to the Mansabdars: A Social History of Military Service in South Asia, c. 1500 to c. 1650
- On the Ottoman Janissaries (Fourteenth-nineteenth Centuries)
- Soldiers in Western Europe, c. 1500-17901
- The Scottish Mercenary as a Migrant Labourer in Europe, 1550-1650
- Change and Continuity in Mercenary Armies: Central Europe, 1650-1750
- Peasants Fighting for a Living in Early Modern North India
- “True to Their Salt”: Mechanisms for Recruiting and Managing Military Labour in the Army of the East India Company During the Carnatic Wars in India
- “The Scum of Every County, the Refuse of Mankind”: Recruiting the British Army in the Eighteenth Century
- Mobilization of Warrior Populations in the Ottoman Context, 1750-1850
- Military Employment in Qing Dynasty China
- Military Service and the Russian Social Order, 1649-1861
- The French army, 1789-1914: Volunteers, Pressed Soldiers, and Conscripts
- The Dutch Army in Transition: From All-volunteer Force to Cadre-militia Army, 1795-1830
- The Draft and Draftees in Italy, 1861-1914
- Nation-building, War Experiences, and European Models: The Rejection of Conscription in Britain
- Mobilizing Military Labor in the Age of Total War: Ottoman Conscription Before and During the Great War
- Soldiering as Work: The All-volunteer Force in the United States
- Private Contractors in War From the 1990s to the Present: A Review Essay
- Collective Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Understanding Changes in Military Recruitment and Employment Worldwide
- Military Labor in China, c. 1500
- From the Mamluks to the Mansabdars: A Social History of Military Service in South Asia, c. 1500 to c. 1650
- On the Ottoman Janissaries (Fourteenth-nineteenth Centuries)
- Soldiers in Western Europe, c. 1500-17901
- The Scottish Mercenary as a Migrant Labourer in Europe, 1550-1650
- Change and Continuity in Mercenary Armies: Central Europe, 1650-1750
- Peasants Fighting for a Living in Early Modern North India
- “True to Their Salt”: Mechanisms for Recruiting and Managing Military Labour in the Army of the East India Company During the Carnatic Wars in India
- “The Scum of Every County, the Refuse of Mankind”: Recruiting the British Army in the Eighteenth Century
- Mobilization of Warrior Populations in the Ottoman Context, 1750-1850
- Military Employment in Qing Dynasty China
- Military Service and the Russian Social Order, 1649-1861
- The French army, 1789-1914: Volunteers, Pressed Soldiers, and Conscripts
- The Dutch Army in Transition: From All-volunteer Force to Cadre-militia Army, 1795-1830
- The Draft and Draftees in Italy, 1861-1914
- Nation-building, War Experiences, and European Models: The Rejection of Conscription in Britain
- Mobilizing Military Labor in the Age of Total War: Ottoman Conscription Before and During the Great War
- Soldiering as Work: The All-volunteer Force in the United States
- Private Contractors in War From the 1990s to the Present: A Review Essay
- Collective Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
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- Fighting for a LivingA Comparative Study of Military Labour 1500–2000, pp. 7 - 8Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2013