History of Switzerland 1499–1914
History of Switzerland 1499–1914
Wilhelm Oechsli
Eden Paul
Cedar Paul
Eden Paul
Cedar Paul
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First published in 1922, as part of the Cambridge Historical Series, this book presents the English translation of a German original written by Swiss historian Wilhelm Oechsli (1851–1919). The text gives a broad overview of the history of Switzerland, beginning with the separation of the Swiss from the Holy Roman Empire and moving through to the establishment of Switzerland as a federal state. A comprehensive bibliography is also included. This is a detailed and highly readable book that will be of value to anyone with an interest in historiography and perspectives on the history of Switzerland.
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9781107629332
496 pages
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Table of Contents
- General preface
- Editor's preface
- Book I. Zenith of the Swiss Confederation, 1499–1519:
- 1. The separation of Switzerland from the Empire
- 2. The confederation of the thriteen cantons and their allies
- 3. Mercenary campaigns in Italy
- 4. Matthew Schinner and the war with France
- Book II. Reformation and Counter-Reformation, 1519–1648:
- 5. Ecclesiastical conditions prior to the Reformation
- 6. Ulrich Zwingli and the Reformation in Zurich
- 7. Spread of the Reformation in German-speaking Switzerland
- 8. The Kappel wars
- 9. Geneva and West Switzerland prior to the Reformation
- 10. Guillaume Farel and the conquest of Vaud
- 11. Calvin in Geneva
- 12. The Counter-Reformation
- 13. The Swiss in the Huguenot wars
- 14. The Swiss during the Thirty Years' War
- 15. Swiss civilisation in the age of the Reformation
- Book III. Age of Aristocracy, 1648–1798:
- 16. The aristocracy and the Peasants' War
- 17. Protestant Switzerland and Oliver Cromwell. The first Villmergen War
- 18. Switzerland and Louis XIV
- 19. The dispute concerning the Neuchâtel succession. The second Villmergen War
- 20. Swiss civilisation in the eighteenth century
- 21. Federal conditions in the eighteenth century
- 22. The Swiss democracies during the eighteenth century
- 23. The Swiss aristocracies during the eighteenth century
- 24. Disturbances in Geneva, Neuchâtel, and the Bishopric of Basel
- 25. Premonitions of the revolution
- Book IV. Period of Revolution, 1798–1815:
- 26. The fall of the old confederation
- 27. The Helvetic Republic one and indivisible
- 28. Switzerland as the theatre of European war
- 29. Coups d'état and mediation
- 30. Switzerland under the Act of Mediation
- 31. Overthrow of the Act of Mediation
- Book V. Epoch of the Federal Pact, 1815–48:
- 32. Epoch of the Restoration
- 33. Liberal and democratic regeneration in the Cantons
- 34. The Sonderbund War
- Book VI. Switzerland as a Federal State, 1848–1914:
- 35. Under the Federal Constitution of 1848
- 36. The Federal Constitution of 1874
- Appendix. The historical relations of England and Switzerland
- Bibliography
- Index.
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