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Mercenaries in/and history: the problem of ahistoricism and contextualism in mercenary scholarship

Small Wars & Insurgencies, 2021
The history of the mercenary seems little less than the history of organized warfare itself. From the dawn of recorded history to the recent rise of Private Military Companies, mercenaries appear a...
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The “Mercenary”

Journal of Glacial Archaeology, 2020
Between 1984 and the early 1990s the remains of a man were recovered from the edge of the Upper Theodul Glacier. The man died around AD 1600 while crossing the Theodul Pass (3301 m.a.s.l.) near Zermatt, one of the most important trade routes in the Pennine Alps at the time.
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The Mercenary Identity in Byzantium: the case of Western European mercenaries

New Europe College Yearbook, 2023
Throughout its history the Byzantine army relied heavily on foreign soldiers of diverse cultural and ethnic background. By focusing on the west-European soldiers who served in Byzantium from the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries, this paper investigates Byzantine ideas about mercenary service, as well as the self-concepts of mercenaries.
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The Mercenary

2023
Abstract Ever since the French Revolution and the rise of national armies, the mercenary has been viewed as a maligned and marginalized actor in International Relations. This book challenges this view, suggesting instead that while relegated to the periphery of great power competition, he remained a coercive instrument of state power who
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Mercenaries

2009
Abstract More than 2,000 representatives of the Iroquois, Delawares, Shawnees, and other Indian nations assembled at Fort Stanwix in New York at the end of October 1768. Sir William Johnson presided over the largest and most important Indian conference in American colonial history.
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Mercenaries of Knowledge

2023
From Lisbon to Rome via the Gulf of Guinea and the sugar mills of northern Brazil, this book explores the strategies and practices that displaced scholars cultivated to navigate the murky waters of late Renaissance politics. By tracing the life of the Portuguese jurist-scholar Vicente Nogueira (1586–1654) across diverse social, cultural, and pol-itical
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The Mercenary

2019
This chapter opens with the author's encounter with a senior HR executive, using it as an entry point into the world of global corporate labor in Bangalore. It presents the figure of the Mercenary as a character shaped by economic precarity, corporate ambition, and material aspiration.
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The Mercenary State

2020
Abstract Throughout the late Elizabethan period, England’s population was incorporated in an ongoing military mobilization, with English armies maintaining a nearly constant presence on multiple fronts in the Low Countries as well as France and Ireland.
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