Mobility between risk and opportunity
The article deals with the risks and the opportunities faced by soldiers who moved with and between different armies in France and in the Southern Netherlands. It inquires into individual choises and their limits regarding the military engagement as well as into the risks and opportunities for retir...
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| 出版年: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/mefrim, |
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| フォーマット: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| 言語: | Anglais |
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Mélanges de l’École française de Rome - Italie et Méditerranée modernes et contemporaines
2014
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| オンライン･アクセス: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 要約: | The article deals with the risks and the opportunities faced by soldiers who moved with and between different armies in France and in the Southern Netherlands. It inquires into individual choises and their limits regarding the military engagement as well as into the risks and opportunities for retired soldiers. It shows how individuals would consciously take advantage of the possibilities provided by the army’s institutional weakness and by conflicts between different authorities. Whereas mobility carried a risk of never being able to return to one’s place of origin or being alienated from the original working or family context, it also provided a considerable number of individuals with possibilities of survival on a day-to-day basis and – with regard to the elites – with better prospects of career advancement. |
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