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UNISA996203935303316 |
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Titolo |
The republican alternative : the Netherlands and Switzerland compared / / editors, André Holenstein, Thomas Maissen, Maarten Prak |
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[Amsterdam] : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2008 |
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©2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-98838-3 |
9786611988388 |
90-485-0849-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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HolensteinAndré |
MaissenThomas <1962-> |
PrakMaarten Roy <1955-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Representative government and representation - Netherlands |
Representative government and representation - Switzerland |
Republicanism - Netherlands - History |
Republicanism - Switzerland - History |
Netherlands Politics and government |
Switzerland Politics and government |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-351) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : the Dutch and Swiss republics compared / André Holenstein, Thomas Maissen, and Maarten Prak -- 'The league of the discordant members, ' or, How the old Swiss confederation operated and how it managed to survive for so long / Andreas Würgler -- Challenges for the republic : coordination and loyalty in the Dutch republic / Maarten Prak -- Bridging the gap : confessionalisation in Switzerland / Francisca Loetz -- Was the Dutch republic a Calvinist community? The state, the confessions and culture in the early modern Netherlands / Willem Frijhoff -- Inventing the sovereign republic : imperial structures, French challenges, Dutch models and the early modern Swiss confederation / Thomas Maissen -- Turning Swiss? Discord in the Dutch debates / Martin van Gelderen -- The content, |
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form and function of Swiss and Dutch images of history / Olaf Mörke -- Republican art? Dutch and Swiss art and art-production compared / Michael North -- The Dassier workshop in Geneva and the Netherlands : two Calvinist republics expressed in medallic form, 1695-1748 / William Eisler -- Exporting mercenaries, money and Mennonites : a Swiss diplomatic mission to The Hague, 1710-1715 / Stefan Altorfer-Ong -- Republican risks : commerce and agriculture in the Dutch republic / Ida Nijenhuis -- Republican futures : the image of Holland in 18th-century Swiss reform discourse / Béla Kapossy -- Radical elements and attempted revolutions in the late-18th-century republics / Marc Lerner -- Debating the republic : a conference report / Daniel Schläppi. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A comprehensive survey of the constitutional history of the Netherlands and Switzerland, and a remarkable socio-historical commentary on these two remarkably successful democracies. |
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