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This 1922 English translation of a German original gives a broad overview of the history of Switzerland.
Author : Wilhelm Oechsli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 36,55 MB
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1107629330
This 1922 English translation of a German original gives a broad overview of the history of Switzerland.
Author : Leo Schelbert
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 2014-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1442233524
Switzerland's exceptional scenic beauty of valleys, lakes, and mountains, its central location on international trade routes, and its world famous banking system are just a few elements that have contributed to its rise in the global market. It consists of twenty-six member states, called cantons and it’s actively engaged in the maintenance of peace among nations. The history of the Swiss Confederation is as rich and varied as its culture and people. This updated second edition of Historical Dictionary of Switzerland features the nation's multicultural and democratic traditions and institutions, its complex history, and its people's involvement in past and present world affairs. This is done through a list of abbreviations and acronyms, a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, maps, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, and institutions, as well as significant political, economic, social, and cultural aspects. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone who wants to know more about Switzerland.
Author : J.T. McNeill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 47,17 MB
Release : 1967-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199727996
A comprehensive history of the Calvinist movement.
Author : Kelly Boyd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 113678764X
The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing contains over 800 entries ranging from Lord Acton and Anna Comnena to Howard Zinn and from Herodotus to Simon Schama. Over 300 contributors from around the world have composed critical assessments of historians from the beginning of historical writing to the present day, including individuals from related disciplines like Jürgen Habermas and Clifford Geertz, whose theoretical contributions have informed historical debate. Additionally, the Encyclopedia includes some 200 essays treating the development of national, regional and topical historiographies, from the Ancient Near East to the history of sexuality. In addition to the Western tradition, it includes substantial assessments of African, Asian, and Latin American historians and debates on gender and subaltern studies.
Author : M. Epstein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1538 pages
File Size : 19,74 MB
Release : 2016-12-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230270689
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Author : George F. E. Rudé
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 31,95 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674269217
Europe in the Eighteenth Century is a social history of Europe in all its aspects: economic, political, diplomatic military, colonial-expansionist. Crisply and succinctly written, it describes Europe not through a history of individual countries, but in a common context during the three quarters of a century between the death of Louis XIV and the industrial revolution in England and the social and political revolution in France. It presents the development of government, institutions, cities, economies, wars, and the circulation of ideas in terms of social pressures and needs, and stresses growth, interrelationships, and conflict of social classes as agents of historical change, paying particular attention to the role of popular, as well as upper- and middle-class, protest as a factor in that change.
Author : S. Steinberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1500 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 2016-12-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230270778
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Author : Heinrich Lienhard
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 31,9 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780809322336
"Lienhard has provided an unusually full account of his early life. The book contains fifty-one chapters, with each chapter featuring one or more life-shaping incidents for this pioneer who would successfully cross the Rocky Mountains at the same time the Donner party, taking a different and more obvious route, perished."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Josephus Nelson Larned
Publisher :
Page : 982 pages
File Size : 38,16 MB
Release : 1924
Category : History
ISBN :
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Publisher :
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 18,14 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :