Arming the State
Subtitle: Military Conscription in the Middle East and Central Asia, 1775-1925
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: December 3, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781860644047
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; Warfare & Defence; 20th century; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Military Personnel; Military Policy; History; History - Military / War; Military; Central Asia; Middle East; Middle East - General; Military - General; Political History; History / Military / Other; Military - Other
First sentence: For most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, universal conscription has been by far the predominant system of military recruitment, but the phenomenon has received surprisingly little attention from social historians.