Under contract : the invisible workers of America's global war
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Ort / Verlag / Datum: | Stanford, California : Stanford University Press,, [2018] |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2018 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Klassifikation: | 360 Soziales: Soziale Probleme
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Beschreibung: | viii, 398 Seiten; Diagramme |
Anmerkungen: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [377]-387 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Prologue : no small war
- Mercenaries, contractors and other hired guns
- Nepalis at war
- One blast, many lives
- Costs and compensation
- Manpower
- Two hundred years of Gurkhas
- "Who will be a Gurkha?"
- Through the colonial looking glass
- The labor of war
- A protective government?
- Of roses and revolutions
- Economic Ottomans
- Turkish engineers and other heroes of the intervention
- Building an empire?
- Detained
- Kidnapped
- Hom Bahadur
- The boredom of being trafficked
- Accountants at war
- Classes and gender at war
- Returning abroad
- When you can't go home
- Where the war went