Captives, recruited, migrants: Empires and labor mobilization, 17th century to present days.

Call for proposals: Captives, recruited, migrants: Empires and labor mobilization, 17th century to present days. EHESS, 30 september-2 October 2015 This workshop starts from the hypothesis that warfare and labor are strongly connected in Empire building and their evolution, to begin with war captives in early modern Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas and to continue with the various forms of recruitment in land and maritime empires in all those areas. Captives as well as local peasants wer..