Fighting for a Living
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Preface
Introduction
Understanding changes in military recruitment and employment worldwide
Erik-Jan Zürcher
Military labor in China, c. 1500
David M. Robinson
From the mamluks to the mansabdars
A social history of military service in South Asia, c. 1500 to c. 1650
Kaushik Roy
On the Ottoman janissaries (fourteenth-nineteenth centuries)
Gilles Veinstein
Soldiers in Western Europe, c. 1500-1790
Frank Tallett
The Scottish mercenary as a migrant labourer in Europe, 1550-1650
James Miller
Change and continuity in mercenary armies: Central Europe, 1650-1750
Michael Sikora
Peasants fighting for a living in early modern North India
Dirk H.A. Kolff
“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
Robert Johnson
“The scum of every county, the refuse of mankind”
Recruiting the British Army in the eighteenth century
Peter Way
Mobilization of warrior populations in the Ottoman context, 1750-1850
Virginia H. Aksan
Military employment in Qing dynasty China
Christine Moll-Murata and Ulrich Theobald
Military service and the Russian social order, 1649-1861
Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter
The French army, 1789-1914
Volunteers, pressed soldiers, and conscripts
Thomas Hippler
The Dutch army in transition
From all-volunteer force to cadre-militia army, 1795-1830
Herman Amersfoort
The draft and draftees in Italy, 1861-1914
Marco Rovinello
Nation-building, war experiences, and European models
The rejection of conscription in Britain
Jörn Leonhard
Mobilizing military labor in the age of total war
Ottoman conscription before and during the Great War
Mehmet Beşikçi
Soldiering as work
The all-volunteer force in the United States
Beth Bailey
Private contractors in war from the 1990s to the present
A review essay
S. Yelda Kaya
Collective bibliography
Notes on Contributors
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