The republican alternative : : the Netherlands and Switzerland compared / / Andre Holenstein, Thomas Maissen, Maarten Prak (eds.).
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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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 pages) :; illustrations, maps |
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Table of 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.