Swiss Mercenaries in the Dutch East Indies

Philipp Krauer graduated from ETH Zurich in 2021 and is currently affiliated with the archives of the Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland. He has widely published on the history of mercenaries, migration, violence and the welfare state in various journals, handbooks and encyclopaedias. Furthermore, he is a cofounder of the public history project zh-kolonial.ch. In recognition of his interdisciplinary research into the colonial entanglements of Swiss mercenaries, he was honoured with the “Young Scholar Award” by the Walter Benjamin Kolleg of the University of Bern in 2023.

• Acknowledgements, Table of Figures, List of Tables, A Note on Spelling, Translation and Currencies, 1. Introduction: Swiss Tools of Empire, 2. Swiss Supplies for Dutch Demands: Transformations in a Military Labour Market, 3. Follow the Men: The Many Lives of Swiss Mercenaries, 4. Follow the Money: Colonial Cash Flows and Interlocking Bureaucracies, 5. Trace the Memory: Relics & Representation in the Transimperial Cultural Archive, 6. Conclusion: Swiss Tools of Empire., 7. Bibliography