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Total Pages : 390 pages
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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 : Wilhelm Oechsli
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ISBN 13 : 9781717480026
Total Pages : 494 pages
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Download or read book History of Switzerland 1499-1914 written by Wilhelm Oechsli and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilhelm Oechsli (1851 - 1919) was a Swiss historian. He studied theology and history at Berlin and Zurich under Theodor Mommsen among others. In 1887 he took up the new chair of Swiss history at the Zurich Polytechnikum. From 1893 to 1919 he was professor of history at the University of Zürich. He tried to popularize critical historiography, challenging the legendary traditions about the Swiss national past.The story he tells is not that of a quiet country, famous for its neutrality and internal harmony, placidly unconcerned with the troubles that have long plagued the rest of Europe.The Swiss Confederation is one of the numerous states that arose out of the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, but it differs from all the rest both in its origin and in its characteristics. Whereas elsewhere the German states owed their origin to princely houses, which had brought together their various domains by inheritance, by marriage, and by conquest, Switzerland grew out of the voluntary union of small communities to form a republican federation of states. In Germany the political obligations which the imperial central government had proved incapable of discharging, fell to the temporal and ecclesiastical princes; but in Switzerland these obligations were taken over by a union of cities and rural districts, the freedom of which was firmly established in the struggle against the dominion of the Habsburgs.However, this mosaic of small, virtually independent states lacked cohesion. There was no thought of a Swiss national identity and states were left to form ad hoc alliances among themselves. Within the states, each community, urban or rural, rich or poor, thought only of its own particular prerogatives and privileges and obstinately fought to preserve them, usually at the expense of the general good. Consequently, Switzerland remained impoverished and politically inept. It's only source of wealth was its highly trained and disciplined mercenaries, feared and respected throughout Europe. The country was able to remain intact only because of its famed neutrality, but the term had a different meaning then -- its soldiers fought on all sides.With the Reformation, came even more discord. Horrible crimes were committed in disputes over such matters as the meanings of the Eucharist and the display of images. The Swiss fought, exiled, mutilated, tortured, and massacred each other by the thousands. The country was not brought out of this medieval nightmare until the influence of the Enlightenment philosophers such as Rousseau and Voltaire began to be felt and the wars of the French Revolution had run their course. It was then that Switzerland emerged as a free, united, and prosperous country admired throughout Europe as the model of an enlightened state.
Author : Cedar Paul
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ISBN 13 : 9781296548506
Total Pages : 438 pages
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Download or read book History of Switzerland, 1499-1914 written by Cedar Paul and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wilhelm Oechsli
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290715492
Total Pages : 442 pages
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Download or read book History of Switzerland, 1499-1914 written by Wilhelm Oechsli and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Wilhelm Oechsli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107629330
Total Pages : 497 pages
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Download or read book History of Switzerland 1499-1914 written by Wilhelm Oechsli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1922 English translation of a German original gives a broad overview of the history of Switzerland.
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Total Pages : 360 pages
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Download or read book History of Switzerland written by and published by . This book was released on 1842* with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Switzerland written by and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Wilson
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1602069190
Total Pages : 386 pages
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Download or read book The History of Switzerland written by John Wilson and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This charming and spirited story of the extraordinary European nation begins with the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Swiss people amongst the challenging landscape of the rugged Alps, and follows their tale through the development of feudalism, the struggle for control by warlords, the Thirty Years War, and into the aftermath of the French Revolution. First published in 1832, this is a tale of dramatic splendor performed by captivating personalities-here is a work of classic history that will delete Europhiles and students of the past alike. Scottish author JOHN WILSON (1785-1854) sometimes wrote under the pseudonym "Christopher North" for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. He is also the author of Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life (1822), The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay (1823), and The Foresters (1825), among other works.
Author : John Wilson
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Total Pages : 386 pages
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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 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arlin C. Migliazzo
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570036828
Total Pages : 488 pages
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Download or read book To Make this Land Our Own written by Arlin C. Migliazzo and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A case study in the social history of frontier town building set in the swamps of South Carolina On the banks of the lower Savannah River, the military objectives of South Carolina officials, the ambitions of Swiss entrepreneur Jean Pierre Purry, and the dreams of Protestants from Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy, and England converged in a planned settlement named Purrysburg. This examination of the first South Carolina township in Governor Robert Johnson's strategic plan to populate and defend the colonial backcountry offers the clearest picture to date of the settlement of the colony's Southern frontier by ethnically diverse and contractually obligated immigrants. Arlin C. Migliazzo contends that the story of Purrysburg Township, founded in 1732 and set in the forbidding environment bounded by the Savannah River and the Coosawhatchie swamps, challenges the notion that white colonists shed their ethnic distinctions to become a monolithic culture. He views Purrysburg as a laboratory in which to observe ethnic phenomena in the colonial and antebellum South. Separated by linguistic, religious, and cultural barriers, the émigrés adapted familiar social processes from their homelands to create a workable sense of community and identity. His work is one of only a handful of examples of what has been deemed the "new social history" methodology as applied to a South Carolina subject. Initially devastated by privation and a high mortality rate, Purrysburg residents also suffered the vicissitudes of an indifferent provincial elite, the encroachment of lowcountry rice planters, Prevost's invasion in 1779, and ultimate destruction of the settlement by Sherman's army. Migliazzo details the community's changing military and economic fortunes, the gradual displacement of its residents to neighboring communities, the role of African Americans in the region, the complex religious life of township settlers, and the quirky contributions of Purry's climatological speculations to the fateful siting of this first township.
