The republican alternative : the Netherlands and Switzerland compared / / Andre Holenstein, Thomas Maissen, Maarten Prak (eds.)

• Pubblicazione: [Amsterdam], : Amsterdam University Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 330
• Soggetto topico: Representative government and representation - Netherlands; Representative government and representation - Switzerland; Republicanism - Netherlands - History; Republicanism - Switzerland - History
• Soggetto geografico: Netherlands Politics and government; Switzerland Politics and government
• Altri autori: HolensteinAndre MaissenThomas <1962-> PrakMaarten Roy <1955->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-351) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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, 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: A comprehensive survey of the constitutional history of the Netherlands and Switzerland, and a remarkable socio-historical commentary on these two remarkably successful democracies.
• Titolo autorizzato: The republican alternative
• ISBN: 1-281-98838-3; 9786611988388; 90-485-0849-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910144124003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II