Bernhard C Schär
Biographic Data
| ID | 1531004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernhard C Schär |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernhard C |
| FAMILY NAME | Schär |
| SIGNATURE | SCHÄR B C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lausanne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4403-4398 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“Thy Kingdom Come”! The Paris Evangelical Missionary Society and Transimperial Protestantism in the Early to Mid 1800s
“Thy Kingdom Come”! The Paris Evangelical Missionary Society and Transimperial Protestantism in the Early to Mid 1800s
Formative Spaces of Empire: Masculinities and Outdoor Experiences ca. 1860–1960
This special issue integrates gender analysis into the global history of outdoor activities in the Age of Empire by focusing on masculinities, a field that has received renewed attention from scholars.The premise of the special issue is that social constructions of masculinities in imperial settings functioned twofold.They operated simultaneously as methods to spread Western-colonial hegemonic values and as a means to expand territorial domains i…
Welfare for War Veterans: How the Dutch Empire Provided for European Mercenary Families, c. 1850 to 1914
The largest “multinational” employers ( avant la letter ) were European India companies and colonial armies. Between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, they recruited millions of mercenaries and soldiers from all over Europe, mostly from lower social classes. Beginning in the nineteenth century, they offered certain welfare-state services to these men and their legitimate and illegitimate families in Europe and the colonies. To maintain the…
Switzerland, Borneo and the Dutch Indies: Towards a New Imperial History of Europe, c .1770–1850
When Switzerland was created in 1848, one of its founding fathers went by the name of ‘Borneo Louis’. Before becoming a Swiss state builder, he had served as a mercenary in the Dutch East Indies. There he had founded a family with his native ‘housekeeper’, Silla. In Switzerland, he continued to benefit from Silla’s exploited labour. Stories such as these seem unusual today, not for historical but for historiographical reasons. Borneo Louis was on…
From Batticaloa via Basel to Berlin. Transimperial Science in Ceylon and Beyond around 1900
Recent historiographies of ‘Science and Empire’ have successfully critiqued older euro-centric narratives. They highlighted how science was ‘co-produced’ through interactions between knowledgeable European and non-European actors in colonial ‘contact zones’, and how this ‘pidginised knowledge’ circulated through networks across various sites within the British Empire. This article shares and expands this approach. By focussing on continental Euro…
Translating the Body: Medical Education in Southeast Asia, by Hans Pols, C. Michele Thompson & John Harley Warner (eds.)
This collection of essays examines deep cultural change in Southeast Asia between roughly 1890 and 1960 through the lens of medical education.Adopting and transforming 'Western' medicine during those decades in present-day Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea, the Philippines, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand involved the learning of several new languages, new understandings of the human body, and changing the role of the state in providing health ser…
‘The Swiss of All People!’ Politics of Embarrassment and Dutch Imperialism around 1900
Nicht mehr Zigeuner, sondern Roma: Emanzipation, Forschung und Strategien der Repräsentation einer „Roma-Nation
From Batticaloa via Basel to Berlin. Transimperial Science in Ceylon and Beyond around 1900
Recent historiographies of ‘Science and Empire’ have successfully critiqued older euro-centric narratives. They highlighted how science was ‘co-produced’ through interactions between knowledgeable European and non-European actors in colonial ‘contact zones’, and how this ‘pidginised knowledge’ circulated through networks across various sites within the British Empire. This article shares and expands this approach. By focussing on continental Euro…
Formative Spaces of Empire: Masculinities and Outdoor Experiences ca. 1860–1960
This special issue integrates gender analysis into the global history of outdoor activities in the Age of Empire by focusing on masculinities, a field that has received renewed attention from scholars.The premise of the special issue is that social constructions of masculinities in imperial settings functioned twofold.They operated simultaneously as methods to spread Western-colonial hegemonic values and as a means to expand territorial domains i…
Switzerland, Borneo and the Dutch Indies: Towards a New Imperial History of Europe, c .1770–1850
When Switzerland was created in 1848, one of its founding fathers went by the name of ‘Borneo Louis’. Before becoming a Swiss state builder, he had served as a mercenary in the Dutch East Indies. There he had founded a family with his native ‘housekeeper’, Silla. In Switzerland, he continued to benefit from Silla’s exploited labour. Stories such as these seem unusual today, not for historical but for historiographical reasons. Borneo Louis was on…
Nicht mehr Zigeuner, sondern Roma: Emanzipation, Forschung und Strategien der Repräsentation einer „Roma-Nation
‘The Swiss of All People!’ Politics of Embarrassment and Dutch Imperialism around 1900
Translating the Body: Medical Education in Southeast Asia, by Hans Pols, C. Michele Thompson & John Harley Warner (eds.)
This collection of essays examines deep cultural change in Southeast Asia between roughly 1890 and 1960 through the lens of medical education.Adopting and transforming 'Western' medicine during those decades in present-day Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea, the Philippines, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand involved the learning of several new languages, new understandings of the human body, and changing the role of the state in providing health ser…
From Batticaloa via Basel to Berlin. Transimperial Science in Ceylon and Beyond around 1900
Recent historiographies of ‘Science and Empire’ have successfully critiqued older euro-centric narratives. They highlighted how science was ‘co-produced’ through interactions between knowledgeable European and non-European actors in colonial ‘contact zones’, and how this ‘pidginised knowledge’ circulated through networks across various sites within the British Empire. This article shares and expands this approach. By focussing on continental Euro…
Switzerland, Borneo and the Dutch Indies: Towards a New Imperial History of Europe, c .1770–1850
When Switzerland was created in 1848, one of its founding fathers went by the name of ‘Borneo Louis’. Before becoming a Swiss state builder, he had served as a mercenary in the Dutch East Indies. There he had founded a family with his native ‘housekeeper’, Silla. In Switzerland, he continued to benefit from Silla’s exploited labour. Stories such as these seem unusual today, not for historical but for historiographical reasons. Borneo Louis was on…
Welfare for War Veterans: How the Dutch Empire Provided for European Mercenary Families, c. 1850 to 1914
The largest “multinational” employers ( avant la letter ) were European India companies and colonial armies. Between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, they recruited millions of mercenaries and soldiers from all over Europe, mostly from lower social classes. Beginning in the nineteenth century, they offered certain welfare-state services to these men and their legitimate and illegitimate families in Europe and the colonies. To maintain the…
Formative Spaces of Empire: Masculinities and Outdoor Experiences ca. 1860–1960
This special issue integrates gender analysis into the global history of outdoor activities in the Age of Empire by focusing on masculinities, a field that has received renewed attention from scholars.The premise of the special issue is that social constructions of masculinities in imperial settings functioned twofold.They operated simultaneously as methods to spread Western-colonial hegemonic values and as a means to expand territorial domains i…
“Thy Kingdom Come”! The Paris Evangelical Missionary Society and Transimperial Protestantism in the Early to Mid 1800s
“Thy Kingdom Come”! The Paris Evangelical Missionary Society and Transimperial Protestantism in the Early to Mid 1800s
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