Award winning book!

April 30, 2025

Award winning book! Philipp Krauer has won the Thomas Welskopp Dissertation Award of the German Labour History Association for his book Swiss Mercenaries in the Dutch East Indies, A Transimperial History of Military Labour, 1848-1914.

Photographed from left to right: StefanBerger, President of the GLHA, the two prize winners PhilippKrauer and KorneliaRung as well as SibylleMarti and KnudAndresen from the GLHA board. Congratulations Philipp and Kornelia!

Read more about Swiss Mercenaries in the Dutch East Indies here: Swiss Mercenaries in the Dutch East Indies – Leiden University Press and read more about the GLHA here: German Labour History Association –

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