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Fighting for a Living : Comparative History of Military Labour 1500-2000
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 tradit…
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- 9789089644527
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- 209p : ill.
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- 355.22309 FIG f
Jihad and Islam in World War I. Studies on the Ottoman Jihad at the centenary…
This books investigates the background and nature of the Ottoman Jihad proclamation, but also its effects in the wider Middle East. It looks at the German hopes and British fears of a worldwide rising of Muslims in the colonial empires. It also discusses the fierce academic debates caused by the Jihad proclamation, in which the 1915 manifesto of Leiden Islam scholar Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje …
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- 9789087282394
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- 357p. : ill.
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- 940.324561 JIH j
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