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Book Review: Alte Und Neue Welt In Historischer Perspekitive: Sieben Studien Zum Amerikanischen Geschichts-Und Selbstverstandnis, Heinz K. Meier
Book Review: Alte Und Neue Welt In Historischer Perspekitive: Sieben Studien Zum Amerikanischen Geschichts-Und Selbstverstandnis, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
This small book contains seven essays by Dr. Guggisberg, Professor of History at the University of Basel and member of the Board of Advisors of the Swiss American Historical Society. Except for the first one, they were previously published in various learned journals, yearbooks, an Festschriften.
Book Review: La Genese De Nova Friburgo. Emigration Et Colonisation Suisse Au Bresil 1817-1827, Leo Schelbert
Book Review: La Genese De Nova Friburgo. Emigration Et Colonisation Suisse Au Bresil 1817-1827, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Nicoulin's work on the making of Nova Friburgo is a thoroughly researched and well-presented study, but somewhat limited in its interpretive dimensions. Manuscript materials in Swiss federal, state, and village archives have been extensively consulted as well as archives in Rio de Janeiro and in Nova Friburgo. The author has furthermore perused a great many printed sources all of which enabled him to reconstruct the story of an emigration which in 1819 involved over 2000 Swiss and had the active support of Swiss governments as well as of Brazilian authorities. A 70-page appendix offers the reader a useful sample of …
Book Review: Memoirs Of A Swiss Officer In The American Civil War, Michael Perman
Book Review: Memoirs Of A Swiss Officer In The American Civil War, Michael Perman
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Three Years in the Army of the Potomac is the title of Rudolf Aschmann's 1865 memoir of his lengthy service in the First U.S. Sharpshooter Regiment and it has been translated from the German for the first time in Heinz Meier's edition. Its appearance in English after so long a period of obscurity (Bruce Catton does not even list it in his bibliography for the Potomac trilogy) will not provoke any interpretative reassessment of the military history of the American Civil War; it does not even contribute data previously unknown. But that does not matter; the account is nonetheless very …
Book Review: Die Schweiz Die Wir Wollen; Stimmem Der Jungen Generation, Heinz K. Meier
Book Review: Die Schweiz Die Wir Wollen; Stimmem Der Jungen Generation, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
This is a collection of short articles (two to fourteen pages) of 34 representatives of the "young generation" on a wide range of subject matters currently under discussion in Switzerland.
Book Review: Notes In Brief
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
A collection of short book reviews.
Book Review: Di Fruhe Amerikanische Frauenbewegung Und Ihre Kontakte In Europa (1836-1869), Fred Schaufelberger
Book Review: Di Fruhe Amerikanische Frauenbewegung Und Ihre Kontakte In Europa (1836-1869), Fred Schaufelberger
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The author of this monograph, Dr. Barbara Schnetzler, is a young Swiss historian at present working in the Municipal Library of Schaffhausen. This was originally her doctoral dissertation, written under the guidance of Prof. Dr. M. Silberschnidt and submitted to the School of Arts and Letters at the University of Zurich.
Book Review: Cross-Cultural And Cross-Generational Sex Role Perceptions Of Swiss American And Amish Females
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
This is a highly technical, sober, and disciplined study of an aspect of culture change, made by Mrs. Boss, daughter of Paul Grossenbacher, both leading members of the New Glarus community. The author's "Abstract" aptly summarizes the intent and the findings of this investigation:
Book Reviews: Notes In Brief
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
A collection of short book reviews.
Book Review: Sozio-Kulturelle Probleme Der Eingliederung Italienischer Arbeitskrafte In Der Schweiz, Dr. Lukas F. Burckhardt
Book Review: Sozio-Kulturelle Probleme Der Eingliederung Italienischer Arbeitskrafte In Der Schweiz, Dr. Lukas F. Burckhardt
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Rudolf Braun's study of the assimilation problems of Italian workers in Switzerland has two outstanding qualities which are rarely found together in the same work: It meets the strict professional standards of modern sociological research, but it is also written with the heart and therefore reads in its main parts like a captivating novel.
Friendship Under Stress: A Book Review, W. Ernst Kuhn
Friendship Under Stress: A Book Review, W. Ernst Kuhn
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Dr. Kuhn, a former member of the Swiss American Historical Society Board of Directors, is Professor of Economics at the University of Nebraska. During 1970/71 he is on leave of absence as Visiting Professor at the St. Gallen School of Economics and Social Sciences where he will be teaching and doing research in the Institute of International Economics and Market Research.
Erasmus Seen By A Historian, Andreas Burckhardt
Erasmus Seen By A Historian, Andreas Burckhardt
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
For many and various reasons the complexity of Erasmus of Rotterdam will never cease to give substance to historical meditation. One might be fascinated, as were the great writers of the Enlightenment, by his opposition to every kind of inessential traditionalism in religion and philosophy or by the cosmopolitan radiation of his thinking among his contemporaries at a period of growing nationalism. Theologians and scholars of antiquity will continue to reappraise how this man of fervent religiosity and profound classical learning succeeded in his lifelong endeavor of bringing about, with the newly discovered tools of philological inquiry, a new understanding …
My Village In Switzerland
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Sonia and Tim Vidal are two American writers of children's books with an unusual talent to understand life and moods in other countries. Their book "My Village in Norway" shows us in a most charming way how children grow up on a Norwegian island of fisherman.
The Swiss Cookbook By Nika Standen Hazelton
The Swiss Cookbook By Nika Standen Hazelton
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
We have just received this new Swiss cookbook. All the cooking experts we consulted confirm that it is excellent. The recipes are preceded by an introduction in which we learn much about the history and philosophy of Swiss cooking. The traditional Swiss meals were simple, but very carefully prepared and served. The carefulness is an excellent basis: As long as it can be preserved, the Swiss cuisine will keep its good renown, and there is not reason to doubt that this will not be the case. The success of emigrated Swiss cooks all over the world shows us that this …
The Pear Tree, The Birch Tree, And The Barberry Bush
The Pear Tree, The Birch Tree, And The Barberry Bush
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The publisher Henry Z. Walck has kindly sent us this newest children's book by Alois Carigiet for review. he Swiss edition in German has been published this year by the Schweizer Spiegel Verlag in Zurich under the title "Birnbaum, Birke, Berberitze". The English translation is excellent. The illustrations are of that high quality characteristic of this gifted artist. So are the reproductions made in Switzerland. Alois Carigiet is a meticulous observer of nature. His trees, bushes, birds and other animals are shown in their distinctive features. The child who looks at these pictures learns to see nature with keen and …
Reviews Of Robert H. Billigmeier's And Fred A. Picard's "The Old Land And The New", L. B.
Reviews Of Robert H. Billigmeier's And Fred A. Picard's "The Old Land And The New", L. B.
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The readers of this second SAHS-Newsletter are referred to Dr. Heinz K . Meier ' s comprehensive evaluation - published on pages 5-7 in our :first Newsletter of April 1965 - of the new book: