Transnational Soldiers

Foreign Military Enlistment in the Modern Era

By: Bruce Collins (Editor)

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Hardcover | 22 May 2012 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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List of Tables	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Introduction: Transnational Military Service since the Eighteenth Century	p. 1
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, 1776-83	p. 15
German Auxiliary Troops in the British and Dutch East India Companies	p. 32
The Politics of Foreign Recruitment in Britain during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars	p. 50
Colonial Military Mobilization
The Military Marketplace in India, 1850-60	p. 69
Recruitment Policies and Recruitment Experiences in the French Foreign Legion	p. 87
'They Had the Sea in Their Blood': Caymanian Naval Volunteers in the Second World War	p. 105
After Empire: Flows of Military Talent
From Imperial Soldiers to National Guardians: German and Lithuanian Volunteers after the Great War, 1918-19	p. 127
Transnational Flows of Military Talent: The Contrasting Experiences of Burma and Thailand since the 1940s	p. 145
Of Local Identities and Transnational Conflict: The Katangese Gendarmes and Central-Southern Africa's Forty-Years War, 1960-99	p. 160
Ideology, Adventure, Coercion
'Strangers, Mercenaries, Heretics, Scoffers, Polluters': Volunteering for the British Auxiliary Legion in Spain, 1835	p. 181
British Red Shirts: A History of the Garibaldi Volunteers (1860)	p. 202
Getting There: Enlistment Considerations and the Recruitment Networks of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War	p. 219
Fighting in Three Uniforms: Soviet POWs in World War Two	p. 233
Conclusions: Jihadists, Diasporas and Professional Contractors - The Resurgence of Non-state Recruitment since the 1980s	p. 250
Further Reading	p. 257
Index	p. 258
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