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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