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Book/Printed Material The republican alternative : the Netherlands and Switzerland compared

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Title

  • The republican alternative : the Netherlands and Switzerland compared

Names

  • Holenstein, André
  • Maissen, Thomas, 1962-
  • Prak, Maarten Roy, 1955-

Created / Published

  • [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, [2008]
  • ©2008

Contents

  • 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.

Headings

  • -  Representative government and representation--Netherlands
  • -  Representative government and representation--Switzerland
  • -  Republicanism--Netherlands--History
  • -  Republicanism--Switzerland--History
  • -  Netherlands--Politics and government
  • -  Switzerland--Politics and government

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-351) and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (360 pages )

Call Number/Physical Location

  • DJ146

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020719352

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Holenstein, André, Thomas Maissen, and Maarten Roy Prak. The republican alternative: the Netherlands and Switzerland compared. [Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, ©, 2008] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2020719352/.

APA citation style:

Holenstein, A., Maissen, T. & Prak, M. R. (2008) The republican alternative: the Netherlands and Switzerland compared. [Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, ©] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2020719352/.

MLA citation style:

Holenstein, André, Thomas Maissen, and Maarten Roy Prak. The republican alternative: the Netherlands and Switzerland compared. [Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, ©, 2008] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2020719352/>.