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Titolo: |
The republican alternative : the Netherlands and Switzerland compared / / editors, André Holenstein, Thomas Maissen, Maarten Prak
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Pubblicazione: | [Amsterdam] : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2008 |
©2008 | |
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: |
HolensteinAndré
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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.: | 996203935303316 |
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