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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"mercenary"”.
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Soldiers of Fortune: A Historical Analysis of American Mercenary Employment
… what factors motivate individuals to join a mercenary company in the modern era?</p> <p>Research into various government databases revealed key documents pertaining to the decision to employ mercenaries in both periods. These sources show that senior leadership within the American government …
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In the Service of the Tsar: European Mercenary Officers and the Reception of Military Reform in Russia, 1654-1667
… reform. The state monitored the quality of the mercenary officers and based their rank and pay levels on their ability to use the weapons of the day, pikes and muskets, suggesting the professional nature of the mercenary officers on the whole.
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"there I, Paul Dolnstein, Saw Action." The Sketchbook Of A Warrior Artisan In The German Renaissance
… insight into one `type' of German Renaissance mercenary, the sedentary type. Known as Landsknechts, German Renaissance mercenaries were prized for their discipline on the field and for their commanders' ability to provide well equipped and well trained armies for the battlefields of Europe. As …
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Navigating Heroines Between Scylla and Charybdis: Austen's Narrators
… and compatibility versus purely romantic or mercenary sentiment in her novels, and through narrative techniques she preserves her heroines from imprudent marriages. Austen's heroines do not fall madly in love at first sight, but rather they acquiesce to marriage through reason and …
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An original composition, Symphony No. 1, "Eustace the Monk" and compositional techniques used to elicit musical humor
… to corrupt the monastery, and later became a mercenary pirate, is the subject matter of this five-movement dramatic symphony. Part II – “Compositional Techniques Used to Elicit Musical Humor” employs an analytical approach to music adapted from various theories of humor. One of the primary …
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TIES OF POWER: A NETWORK ANALYSIS OF CONTRACTUAL AND KINSHIP RELATIONS BETWEEN MERCENARIES AND REGIONAL STATES IN THE WARFARE MARKET OF RENAISSANCE ITALY.
… (1985), this research emphasises that mercenary contracts in Renaissance Italy were not simply market-driven transactions, but were deeply embedded in kinship networks and wider social structures that significantly influenced their nego tiation, implementation and evolution. Indeed, …
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The Road to Regulation of Private Military and Security Companies: An Analysis of the (Re-)Articulation of the Norms Governing the Legitimate Use of Force
… is surprising given the existence of an anti-mercenary norm and a norm on the state monopoly on violence, both of which have precluded the private exercise of violence. How, then, should the rise of private military and security companies be understood in light of this hostile normative …
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A Literary and Cultural History of Military Science Fiction and the United States of America, 1870s-2010s
… through soldier alienation and the ‘cult of the mercenary’ during the Vietnam and post-Vietnam era of the 1970s and 1980s, to the renewed American Exceptionalism and military-civilian divide of the 2000s – this thesis focuses on American attitudes towards militarism and militarisation. The …
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Mercenaries in History and the Modern Era: Impact of the Privatized Military Industry on U.S. Security Interests
… defeated in the Second Punic War as a result of mercenary use. Mercenaries numbers were limited, and more importantly, their use reflected a weak commitment to winning wars. The Byzantine Empire endured for many centuries as a result of its recruiting system known as the theme and the …
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THE GERMAN SOLDIERS IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (VOLUMES I AND II, CHAPTERS 1-12)
… about the last major European army to fight for mercenary payment, but they also prefigure the professional peacekeepers of the twentieth century, soldiers fighting not for national preservation, but rather for some conception of societal order. In terms of utility, the British made a good …
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The Impact of strategic implementation on the employees and contractors of the Hewlett-Packard Company.
… employees and contractors to adopt a more mercenary approach to their employment with HP. The special bond between HP and its employees generated by the values and egalitarian working environment created by its founders has been broken by new leadership. Acquisition of the Compaq Computer …
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Head Studies by Balthasar Denner
… and conscience of Germany were left to foreign mercenary troops to settle. By 1634, all semblance of unity in both the Protestant Union and the Catholic League had vanished; Germany became a battleground onto which descended armies from France, Austria, Sweden and Spain. To feed the soldiers, …
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“IN STRANGER TIDES”: INTER-CULTURAL CONTACTS, CONTRACTS AND LEGALITIES IN EARLY MODERN MARITIME SOUTHEAST ASIA (1700-1850)
… this thesis demonstrates how bonds of ethnicity, mercenary intimacies and conversion were buttressed by written maritime laws and normative injunctions. The first section of the thesis thus describes the codification and the expansion of the Malay maritime code Undang-Undang Laut and Undang Undang …
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Losers in the isthmus: Central America in American literature
… incarnations--the drifter, junkie, lost soul, or mercenary--point to a profound American ambivalence about interventionism. The trope of the loser in an isthmian wasteland transforms, after World War II, into the figure of the loser in Southeast Asia. My project explores the figure of the loser …
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The use of private military and security companies in international society: contestation and legitimation of state practice
… supported by some actors: this is the anti-mercenary norm, and particular understandings of self-determination and the monopoly on the legitimate use of force. On the other hand, and partly linked to the weakening of the latter norms, human rights have gained strength as legitimacy …
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Conditional Nationalism: A Study of the Nationalistic Ideology of Richard Wagner with Specific Reference to his Music-Drama Die Meistersinger Von Nuremberg
… of pride in the new regime, and despite repeated mercenary attempts to use the new Empire as a staging ground for his artistic utopia, it was not to be. By the end of his life, Wagner had sunk entirely into the characteristic bitterness which had defined his nationalist journey. He railed against …
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Foreign Seamen and the British Navy, 1793-1815
… In times pre-dating the rise of the modern anti-mercenary norm, cosmopolitanism was disciplined and accommodated in ingenious and flexible ways within the Navy – a military institution which, albeit part of a transnational maritime world, was by definition a heavily ‘nationalised’ space. Third, …
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Subverting value hierarchies : essays on the causes and responses to shifts in demand for authenticity
… over the increased prominence of an ulterior, mercenary motive for performance. I argue and show that this "commitment crisis" invalidated the prevailing popular style, and in its place the retro ballpark style was valued as an expression faithful to the traditional roots of the industry. In …
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Token or full member of the team? : an examination of the utilization and status of women in combat arms positions in the armed forces of Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States of America
… history of the evolution of the military from a mercenary force to mass armies sustained by conscription through to all-volunteer forces. It also exammes the effect of technology on the military, the changing role of the military in society, and theories of occupationalization versus the …
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