Bibliograph

Under contract, the invisible workers of America's global war, Noah Coburn

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Under contract, the invisible workers of America's global war, Noah Coburn

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Under contract

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1021086970

Responsibility statement

Noah Coburn

Sub title

the invisible workers of America's global war

Table Of Contents

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

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