About This Book
An examination of the practice by which regional rulers rented out troops to foreign powers, treating enlisted men as mercenary commodities; it combines archival narrative of recruitment and transfers with analysis of political, social, and moral consequences, arguing that territorial fragmentation and dynastic particularism enabled and incentivized the trade and tracing its effects on national honor, public opinion, and state formation; the author situates the phenomenon within broader cultural and institutional conditions of the eighteenth century and reflects on its legacy for contemporary national politics.
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