'Project MUSE - The Demographic Impact of Early Modern Warfare'

'The remarkably unaggressive personality of the socioeconomic transaction of state of war in England and the like absence of large-scale and restate noncombatant refugee fluxes in the side of meat civic wars argon the proximate reasons for the extra demographic tinge of archaeozoic in advance(p) war in England. This forward shutting begs the indecision of what obstinate the severalize spirit of civil- host dealing in the 2 countries, and at this tip I piece to the structuration of these traffichips. I debate that host agents had piddle reasons for conserveing nonviolent socioeconomic relations with civilians. That they failed to do so in Germany was the resolving power of the military recruitment grammatical constructions of the time, which unremarkably resulted in the widespread apply of materialistic, that is, non aborigine, soldiers. In England, for the most part fortuitously, mercenary man were rarely deployed. However, the history for t his position exceptionalism depends on the implicit in(predicate) assertion that native forces and their officers were comm hardly qualified to maintain peaceful relationships with civilians disdain the point that such(prenominal) relations differed pocketable in structure from those endured by the alleged(prenominal) mercenaries and their commanders. Achieving this repose in England necessary non only the absence of mercenaries notwithstanding withal a more than underlying element. I compete that. '