Outside of a Dog

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Recent Books

Marcel van der Linden, Raquel Varela, Hugh Murphy: Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Workers around the World (2017) No rating

Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Workers around the World

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Maritime trade is the backbone of the world’s economy. Around ninety percent of all goods are transported by ship, and since World War II, shipbuilding has undergone major changes in response to new commercial pressures and opportunities. Early British dominance, for example, was later undermined in the 1950s by competition …

Erik-Jan Zürcher: Fighting for a Living (2020, Amsterdam University Press)

Fighting for a Living

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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 …