A Concise History of Switzerland

Author: Clive H. Church
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107244196
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325

Book Description
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.

A Concise History of Switzerland

Author: Clive H. Church
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052119444X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325

Book Description
This comprehensive and engaging new history traces Switzerland's changeable development from its medieval origins to the present.

A Concise History of Switzerland

Author: Clive H. Church
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781107240827
Category : Switzerland
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
"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"--

A Concise History of Modern Europe

Author: David S. Mason
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1442205350
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
Highlighting the most important events, ideas, and individuals that shaped modern Europe, A Concise History of Modern Europe provides a readable, succinct history of the continent from the Enlightenment and the French Revolution to the present day. Avoiding a detailed, lengthy chronology, the book focuses on key events and ideas to explore the causes and consequences of revolutions—be they political, economic, or scientific; the origins and development of human rights and democracy; and issues of European identity. Any reader needing a broad overview of the sweep of European history since 1789 will find this book, published in a first edition under the title Revolutionary Europe, an engaging and cohesive narrative.

Concise History of Science & Invention

Author: Jolyon Goddard
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426205449
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355

Book Description
A global view of science and technology as it developed over the centuries.

Swiss Graphic Design

Author: Richard Hollis
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300106763
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
Originally published: London: Laurence King Pub., 2006.

A Concise History of Italy

Author: Christopher Duggan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521408486
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348

Book Description
A concise history of Italy from the fall of the Roman empire in the west to the present day.

Why Switzerland?

Author: Jonathan Steinberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521883075
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405

Book Description
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?

A Concise History of Hungary

Author: Miklós Molnár
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521667364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396

Book Description
A comprehensive history of the land, people, society, culture and economy of Hungary.

A Concise History of Sweden

Author: Neil Kent
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521812844
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A comprehensive history of Sweden covering events from the Stone Age onwards.