Transnational soldiers : foreign military enlistment in the modern era
2013
355.3 T772 2013
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Title
Transnational soldiers : foreign military enlistment in the modern era
Variant Title
Foreign military enlistment in the modern era
Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Description
xi, 263 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
355.3 T772 2013
System Control No.
(OCoLC)802321053
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257) and index.
Contents: Introduction: transnational military service since the eighteenth century / Nir Arielli and Bruce Collins -- Re-examining the decline of mercenary armies, 1776-1815 -- Desperate for soldiers: the recruitment of German prisoners of war during the American War of Independence, 1776-1783 / Daniel Krebs -- German auxiliary troops in the British and Dutch East India Companies / Chen Tzoref Ashkenazi -- The politics of foreign recruitment in Britain during the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars / Kevin Linch -- Colonial military mobilization -- The military marketplace in India, 1840-60 / Bruce Collins -- Recruitment policies and recruitment experiences in the French Foreign legion / Christian Koller -- "They had the sea in their blood": Caymanian naval volunteers in the Second World War / Daniel Spence 132 -- After empire: flows of military talent -- From imperial soldiers to national guardians: German and Lithuanian volunteers after the Great War, 1918-1919 / Tomas Balkelis -- Transnational flows of military talent: the contrasting experiences of Burma and Thailand since the 1940s / Nicholas Farrelly -- Of local identities and transnational conflict: the Katangese gendarmes and central-southern Africa's forty-years war, 1960-1999 / Miles Larmer -- Ideology, adventure, coercion -- "Strangers, mercenaries, heretics, scoffers, polluters": volunteering for the British auxiliary legion in Spain, 1835 / Martin Robson -- British red shirts: a history of the Garibaldi volunteers (1860) / Marcella Pellegrino Sutcliffe -- Getting there: enlistment considerations and the recruitment networks of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War / Nir Arielli -- Fighting in three uniforms: Soviet POWs in World War Two / Dónal O'Sullivan -- Conclusions -- Jihadists, diasporas and professional contractors: the resurgence of non-state recruitment since the 1980s / Nir Arielli and Bruce Collins.
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Contents: Introduction: transnational military service since the eighteenth century / Nir Arielli and Bruce Collins -- Re-examining the decline of mercenary armies, 1776-1815 -- Desperate for soldiers: the recruitment of German prisoners of war during the American War of Independence, 1776-1783 / Daniel Krebs -- German auxiliary troops in the British and Dutch East India Companies / Chen Tzoref Ashkenazi -- The politics of foreign recruitment in Britain during the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars / Kevin Linch -- Colonial military mobilization -- The military marketplace in India, 1840-60 / Bruce Collins -- Recruitment policies and recruitment experiences in the French Foreign legion / Christian Koller -- "They had the sea in their blood": Caymanian naval volunteers in the Second World War / Daniel Spence 132 -- After empire: flows of military talent -- From imperial soldiers to national guardians: German and Lithuanian volunteers after the Great War, 1918-1919 / Tomas Balkelis -- Transnational flows of military talent: the contrasting experiences of Burma and Thailand since the 1940s / Nicholas Farrelly -- Of local identities and transnational conflict: the Katangese gendarmes and central-southern Africa's forty-years war, 1960-1999 / Miles Larmer -- Ideology, adventure, coercion -- "Strangers, mercenaries, heretics, scoffers, polluters": volunteering for the British auxiliary legion in Spain, 1835 / Martin Robson -- British red shirts: a history of the Garibaldi volunteers (1860) / Marcella Pellegrino Sutcliffe -- Getting there: enlistment considerations and the recruitment networks of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War / Nir Arielli -- Fighting in three uniforms: Soviet POWs in World War Two / Dónal O'Sullivan -- Conclusions -- Jihadists, diasporas and professional contractors: the resurgence of non-state recruitment since the 1980s / Nir Arielli and Bruce Collins.
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