History Of Switzerland

Author : Clive H. Church
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107244196
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of Switzerland written by Clive H. Church and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its position at the heart of Europe and its quintessentially European nature, Switzerland's history is often overlooked within the English-speaking world. This comprehensive and engaging history of Switzerland traces the historical and cultural development of this fascinating but neglected European country from the end of the Dark Ages up to the present. The authors focus on the initial Confederacy of the Middle Ages; the religious divisions which threatened it after 1500 and its surprising survival amongst Europe's monarchies; the turmoil following the French Revolution and conquest, which continued until the Federal Constitution of 1848; the testing of the Swiss nation through the late nineteenth century and then two World Wars and the Depression of the 1930s; and the unparalleled economic and social growth and political success of the post-war era. The book concludes with a discussion of the contemporary challenges, often shared with neighbours, that shape the country today.

Author : Dieter Fahrni
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Outline History of Switzerland written by Dieter Fahrni and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Heinrich Zschokke
Publisher : New York : C.S. Francis ; London : S. Low
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.SK/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Switzerland, for the Swiss People written by Heinrich Zschokke and published by New York : C.S. Francis ; London : S. Low. This book was released on 1855 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Switzerland written by John Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Switzerland written by and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : D. Birmingham
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333800140
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Switzerland: A Village History written by D. Birmingham and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-05-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Switzerland is a remarkable country half of whose territory lies in the Alps. The raising of cattle and the making of cheese eventually brought a modest wealth to the peasants but the destructive Napoleonic invasion brought revolution and poverty. The democratic unification of Switzerland created a common market and a single currency. This history of one alpine village illustrates a one-thousand-year struggle for survival on the edge of this white wilderness.

Author : R. James Breiding
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847658091
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swiss Made written by R. James Breiding and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has Switzerland - a tiny, land-locked country with few natural advantages - become so successful for so long at so many things? In banking, pharmaceuticals, machinery, even textiles, Swiss companies rank alongside the biggest and most powerful global competitors. How did they get there? How do they continue to refresh themselves? Does the Swiss 'Sonderfall' (special case) provide lessons others can learn and benefit from? Can the Swiss continue to perform in a hyper-competitive global economy? Swiss Made offers answers to these and many other questions about the country as it describes the origins, structures and characteristics of the most important Swiss companies. The authors suggest success is due to a large degree to sound entrepreneurial thinking and an openness to new ideas. And they venture a surprising forecast on the country's ability to keep pace in an age of globalisation.

Author : Charles Gilliard
Publisher : London : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Switzerland written by Charles Gilliard and published by London : Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 1955 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ernst Baltensperger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108191444
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swiss Monetary History since the Early 19th Century written by Ernst Baltensperger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the remarkable path which led to the Swiss Franc becoming the strong international currency that it is today. Ernst Baltensperger and Peter Kugler use Swiss monetary history to provide valuable insights into a number of issues concerning the organization and development of monetary institutions and currency that shaped the structure of financial markets and affected the economic course of a country in important ways. They investigate a number of topics, including the functioning of a world without a central bank, the role of competition and monopoly in money and banking, the functioning of monetary unions, monetary policy of small open economies under fixed and flexible exchange rates, the stability of money demand and supply under different monetary regimes, and the monetary and macroeconomic effects of Swiss Banking and Finance. Swiss Monetary History since the Early 19th Century illustrates the value of monetary history for understanding financial markets and macroeconomics today.

Author : Jonathan Steinberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521883075
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Switzerland? written by Jonathan Steinberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and completely updated edition of Jonathan Steinberg's classic account of Switzerland's unique political and economic system. Why Switzerland? examines the complicated voting system that allows citizens to add, strike out, or vote more than once for candidates, with extremely complicated systems of proportional representation; a collective and consensual executive leadership in both state and church; and the creation of the Swiss idea of citizenship, with tolerance of differences of language and religion, and a perfectionist bureaucracy which regulates the well-ordered society. This third edition tries to test the flexibility of the Swiss way of politics in the globalized world, social media, the huge expansion of money in world circulation and the vast tsunamis of capital which threaten to swamp it. Can the complex machinery that has maintained Swiss institutions for centuries survive globalization, neo-liberalism and mass migration from poor countries to rich ones?