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Part 1 – Historical Overview

Mercenaries in/and history: the problem of ahistoricism and contextualism in mercenary scholarship

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Pages 22-47 | Received 07 Sep 2021, Accepted 18 Oct 2021, Published online: 10 Nov 2021

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