Transnational soldiers : foreign military enlistment in the modern era /

Warfare in the modern era has often been described in terms of national armies fighting national wars. This volume challenges the view by examining transnational aspects of military mobilization from the eighteenth century to the present. Truly global in scope, it offers an alternative way of readin...

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Other Authors: Arielli, Nir, Collins, Bruce
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Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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505 0 |a 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 Desperate for Soldiers: The Recruitment of German Prisoners of War during the American War of Independence, 1776-1783 -- D. Krebs German Auxiliary Troops in the British and Dutch East India Companies -- C.T. Ashkenazi The Politics of Foreign Recruitment in Britain during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars -- K. Linch PART II: COLONIAL MILITARY MOBILIZATION The Military Marketplace in India, 1840-60 -- B. Collins Recruitment Policies and Recruitment Experiences in the French Foreign Legion -- C. Koller '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 From Imperial Soldiers to National Guardians: German and LithuanianVolunteers after the Great War, 1918-1919 -- T. Balkelis Transnational Flows of Military Talent: The Contrasting Experiences of Burma and Thailand since the 1940s -- N. Farrelly Of Local Identities and Transnational Conflict: the Katangese Gendarmes and Central-Southern Africa's Forty-Years War, 1960-1999 -- M. Larmer PART VI: IDEOLOGY, ADVENTURE, COERCION 'Strangers, Mercenaries, Heretics, Scoffers, Polluters': Volunteering for the British Auxiliary Legion in Spain, 1835 -- M. Robson British Red Shirts: A History of the Garibaldi Volunteers (1860) -- M.P. Sutcliffe Getting there: Enlistment Considerations and the Recruitment Networks of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War -- N. Arielli 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. 
520 |a Warfare in the modern era has often been described in terms of national armies fighting national wars. This volume challenges the view by examining transnational aspects of military mobilization from the eighteenth century to the present. Truly global in scope, it offers an alternative way of reading the military history of the last 250 years.  |b The history of military mobilization does not fit neatly into national boxes, not even in the modern era. The traditional military history narrative, at least as far as Europe is concerned, sees the French Revolution as an important turning point in the 'nationalization' of military service. The essays in this volume seek to challenge this view by examining largely overlooked aspects of military mobilization from the eighteenth century to the present. Whether as colonial troops, ideological volunteers, mercenaries, adventurers or soldiers who were recruited in prisoner of war camps, men and women have often found themselves fighting for a country other than their own. On numerous occasions, pressing wartime needs have compelled states to turn to transnational recruitment. At the same time, the willingness of individuals to commit to cross-border military service has endured despite the advent of nation-states; a trend that could become more prevalent in the twenty-first century. 
545 0 |a NIR ARIELLI is a Lecturer in International History at the University of Leeds, UK. BRUCE COLLINS is Professor of Modern History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. 
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