Periodic Reporting for period 1 - EuMeDE (European Mercenaries in the Dutch Empire. A Connected History of Continental Europe and Colonial Indonesia, c. 1800—1900)

What legacy did Europe's imperial expansion in the 19th century leave not only in the former colonies, but also in Europe itself? This project took a new approach to this timely question. It sought to examine how some 70,000 mercenaries from Germany, Belgium and France, who...