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Fighting for a Living

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: Undetermined Series: Work around the globe ; volume 1Publisher: s.l. : Amsterdam University Press, 2013Description: 1 Online-Ressource (1 electronic resource ( p.))ISBN:
  • 9789089644527
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Erscheint auch als: Fighting for a living. A comparative study of military labour 1500-2000. Druck-Ausgabe. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press 2013DDC classification:
  • 355.22309
LOC classification:
  • UB320
Online resources: Summary: 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 regionPPN: PPN: 1066919232Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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