Talk:Blood tribute

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I left the following feedback for the creator/future reviewers while reviewing this article: Thanks for this translation from here- impressive!.

VickKiang 08:15, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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There was one major issue of wording in the translation — the use of "conscription" for the blood tribute. In his book on the subject ("The Tribute of Blood"), Peter M. Beattie emphasizes that impressment is not conscription. Both are coercitive, and they're often conflated. But impressment/forced recruitment is the method described in this article, whereas conscription is enlisting and calling eligible citizens i.e. what the 1874 and 1908 laws tried to implement. One is ancient and by brute force, the other one in its modern form is a French Revolution/industrial age innovation enforced bureaucratically. Hence, Brazil transitioned from impressment to conscription in 1916. The differences go on and on. Conscripts in the modern sense (post-1916 in Brazil) serve for limited periods and are transferred to the reserve. The old Brazilian system, with soldiers serving for many years and then finishing their military obligations, has more in common with present-day volunteer armies; in fact, after 1874 or 1891 it was an all-volunteer army on paper. Professional/career soldiers are the opposite of conscripts. What can make this difficult to understand is that nowadays there's a dichotomy between conscript and professional/volunteer armies. Prior to 1916, the Brazilian army was superficially like the latter; after 1916, it was truly a conscript army.

One more detail: tropas de linha apparently refers to first-line i.e. Army units, as opposed to the second-line (National Guard). Serraria (talk) 22:28, 25 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]