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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
Big and little histories : sizing up ethics in historiography
This book introduces students to ethics in historiography through an exploration of how historians in different times and places have explained how history ought to be written and how those views relate to different understandings of ethics. No two histories are the same. The book argues that this is a good thing because the differences between histories are largely a matter of ethics. Looking …
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- 9780429399992
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- XI, 209 p.
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- 174.99072 HUG b
World history, a genealogy : private conversations with world historians, 199…
This volume charts the history of the discipline through twenty-five in-depth conversations with historians whose work has shaped the field of world history in fundamental ways. These conversations, which took place over a period of twenty years for the world history journal Itinerario, cover these historians’ lives, work, and views of the academy in general and the field of world history in …
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- 9789400602854
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- 429p. : ill.
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- 907.2 WOR w
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