Transnational Soldiers

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.

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.

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