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Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
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Autor/in: N. Arielli; B. Collins
Titel: Transnational Soldiers - Foreign Military Enlistment in the Modern Era
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan; Palgrave Macmillan UK
263 Seiten
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012-11-28
London; GB
Sprache: Englisch
96,29 € (DE)
118,00 CHF (CH)
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EA; E107; eBook; Nonbooks, PBS / Geschichte/Regionalgeschichte, Ländergeschichte; Europäische Geschichte; Verstehen; Britain; civil war; eighteenth century; empire; history; military history; Napoleon; revolution; Spain; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR); B; European History; World History, Global and Transnational History; Modern History; Military History; Palgrave History Collection; Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte; Geschichte; Militärgeschichte; BC

Contents Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: Transnational Military Service since the Eighteenth Century; N.Arielli & B.Collins  PART I: RE-EXAMINING THE DECLINE OF MERCENARY ARMIES, 1776-1815 1. Desperate for Soldiers: The Recruitment of German Prisoners of War during the American War of Independence, 1776–1783; D.Krebs 2. German Auxiliary Troops in the British and Dutch East India Companies; C.T.Ashkenazi 3. The Politics of Foreign Recruitment in Britain during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; K.Linch  PART II: COLONIAL MILITARY MOBILIZATION 4. The Military Marketplace in India, 1840-60; B.Collins 5. Recruitment Policies and Recruitment Experiences in the French Foreign Legion; C.Koller 6. 'They had the sea in their blood': Caymanian Naval Volunteers in the Second World War; D.Spence  PART III: AFTER EMPIRE: FLOWS OF MILITARY TALENT 7. From Imperial Soldiers to National Guardians: German and LithuanianVolunteers after the Great War, 1918-1919; T.Balkelis8. Transnational Flows of Military Talent: The Contrasting Experiences of Burma and Thailand since the 1940s; N.Farrelly 9. Of Local Identities and Transnational Conflict: the Katangese Gendarmes and Central-Southern Africa's Forty-Years War, 1960-1999; M.Larmer  PART IV: IDEOLOGY, ADVENTURE, COERCION 10. 'Strangers, Mercenaries, Heretics, Scoffers, Polluters': Volunteering for the British Auxiliary Legion in Spain, 1835; M.Robson 11. British Red Shirts: A History of the Garibaldi Volunteers (1860); M.P.Sutcliffe 12. Getting there: Enlistment Considerations and the Recruitment Networks of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War; N.Arielli 13. Fighting in Three Uniforms: Soviet POWs in World War Two; D.O'Sullivan Conclusions: Jihadists, Diasporas and Professional Contractors: the Resurgence of Non-State Recruitment since the 1980s; N.Arielli  & B.Collins Further Reading/Selected Bibliography Index