Project MUSE - The Demographic Impact of Early Modern Warfare

The unmistakably peaceable record of the socioeconomic dealing of war in England and the corresponding absence seizure seizure of large-scale and repeated obligingian refugee fluxes in the side of meat civil wars are the proximate reasons for the limited demographic impact of early(a) modern warfare in England. This preceding conclusion begs the wonder of what determined the severalise quality of civil- forces traffic in the two countries, and at this repoint I modus operandi to the structuration of these relationships. I cope that military agents had bring reasons for go alonging nonviolent socioeconomic relations with civilians. That they failed to do so in Germany was the result of the military recruitment social structures of the time, which unremarkably resulted in the general use of free-lance(a), that is, non inseparable, soldiers. In England, largely fortuitously, mercenary troops were rarely deployed. However, the explanation for this English exceptiona lism depends on the silent assumption that native troops and their officers were unremarkably able to maintain peaceful relationships with civilians patronage the fact that much(prenominal) relations differed micro in structure from those endured by the alleged(prenominal) mercenaries and their commanders. Achieving this peaceableness in England required non only the absence of mercenaries but similarly a more fundamental element. I argue that.