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SUMMARY:Swiss Information Labour in Colonial Britain\, 1688-1756
DESCRIPTION:Accounts of Swiss global history have recently pointed to the S
 wiss cantons as a hinterland for military recruitment for Dutch\, French a
 nd British colonial mercenaries. Following the biographies of a group of y
 oung ministers who had left their Swiss home to take up a post in colonial
  Britain\, this paper argues that the Swiss cantons not only served as a p
 ool of military labour\, but also as an “information hinterland” for y
 oung Swiss academics who were recruited into imperial institutions. Betwee
 n the Revolution of 1688–1689 and the Seven Years’ War\, these career 
 migrants took up posts as secretaries\, librarians\, chaplains\, translato
 rs and agents. Their information work for British missionary societies\, t
 he Church of England\, the colonial collections of London and the British 
 East India Company was supported by three historical developments: the Pro
 testant International\, the growing importance of colonial London as a met
 ropole of collecting and the need of the Company to recruit Protestant mer
 cenaries during the Carnatic Wars in India. Swiss information labour led t
 o a multiplication of the information channels of the British Empire. Even
  if these young men worked under precarious conditions\, their interweavin
 g of private and institutional correspondences made them into ambiguous au
 xiliaries of empire.
X-ALT-DESC:<p>Accounts of Swiss global history have recently pointed to the
  Swiss cantons as a hinterland for military recruitment for Dutch\, French
  and British colonial mercenaries. Following the biographies of a group of
  young ministers who had left their Swiss home to take up a post in coloni
 al Britain\, this paper argues that the Swiss cantons not only served as a
  pool of military labour\, but also as an “information hinterland” for
  young Swiss academics who were recruited into imperial institutions. Betw
 een the Revolution of 1688–1689 and the Seven Years’ War\, these caree
 r migrants took up posts as secretaries\, librarians\, chaplains\, transla
 tors and agents. Their information work for British missionary societies\,
  the Church of England\, the colonial collections of London and the Britis
 h East India Company was supported by three historical developments: the P
 rotestant International\, the growing importance of colonial London as a m
 etropole of collecting and the need of the Company to recruit Protestant m
 ercenaries during the Carnatic Wars in India. Swiss information labour led
  to a multiplication of the information channels of the British Empire. Ev
 en if these young men worked under precarious conditions\, their interweav
 ing of private and institutional correspondences made them into ambiguous 
 auxiliaries of empire.</p>
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