This book offers insights into the transimperial networks that shaped medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, highlighting the role of foreign physicians in the Dutch Empire. Lees meer
'Swiss Mercenaries in the Dutch Indies' reveals profound effects of colonialism not only on the colonies themselves, but also on the social, economic and cultural landscape of the European hinterland. Lees meer
This book traces the 5,800 Swiss Mercenaries who enlisted in the Dutch Colonial Army (KNIL) between 1848 and 1914 to fight in the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia). Lees meer