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
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2020719352
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- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-3.0 Unported CC BY-NC 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode External
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- Unrestricted online access
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- image