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Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
This issue contains one of the three fine papers given at the annual meeting of the SAHS, held in Washington, D.C. on October 7, 1995, at the Embassy of Switzerland. The essay of the American cultural historian Professor H. Dwight Page of the University of Memphis, Tennessee, details the numerous and complex issues posed by the European Union to the Swiss polity. Ambassador Carlo Jagmetti attended the session and offered a thoughtful and appreciative response. Readers interested in Swiss affairs viewed within a European context will especially value Professor Page's incisive analysis.
Book Review: Geneva, Zurich, Basel: History, Culture And National Identity, Marion S. Miller
Book Review: Geneva, Zurich, Basel: History, Culture And National Identity, Marion S. Miller
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The idea of identity with Europe is central to the studies of the cities in the two volumes under review. As Carl Schorske suggests in his introduction to Geneva, Zurich, Basel: while Switzerland voted against European unity, these three cities, despite diverse but strong local identities, endorsed the unity concept when a referendum was undertaken in 1992. In a similar vein, James Cracraft, in an essay which surveys the historical background of Peter the Great' s rationale for the building of St. Petersburg in the eighteenth century, is hopeful that the city, reclaiming its original name after the demise of …
Book Review: Literary Freedom And Social Constraints In The Works' Of Gertrud Leutenegger., Laura Villiger
Book Review: Literary Freedom And Social Constraints In The Works' Of Gertrud Leutenegger., Laura Villiger
Swiss American Historical Society Review
In and around Switzerland Gertrud Leutennegger ranks among the wellknown contemporary Swiss writers. As yet, however, her work has not been translated and its reception has therefore been limited to German-speaking countries. Margrit Zinggeler' s study thus comes as a welcome introduction to Leutenegger' s writings that is designed for a general as well as specialized readership. As Zinggeler makes clear at the outset of her investigation, when Gertrud Leutenegger first started to write in the early 1970's, her artistic independence signaled a turning point in Swiss women writing. Luckily, the author has never since compromised her inner vision and …
The Crisis Of Switzerland On The Threshold Of The European Union, H. Dwight Page
The Crisis Of Switzerland On The Threshold Of The European Union, H. Dwight Page
Swiss American Historical Society Review
During the fifty years since the conclusion of World War II in 1945, Europe has undergone more radical changes than during the three preceding millennia. The Treaty of Maastricht, prepared by the twelve members of the European Community in December, 1991, legalizes a process of European social, economic and political unification and homogenization contradicting the evolution of European politics and societies since the fall of the Roman Empire. The majority of the nation states of Western Europe have been generated by a concerted struggle against amalgamation into large transnational empires. Notable examples are France, formed by the dissolution of its …
Program For The Afternoon Meeting
Program For The Afternoon Meeting
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Reports, Sabine Jessner, Erdmann Schmocker, Carla Crosby, Elisabeth Stockli, Donald Tritt, Leo Schelbert, Selina Sutter
Reports, Sabine Jessner, Erdmann Schmocker, Carla Crosby, Elisabeth Stockli, Donald Tritt, Leo Schelbert, Selina Sutter
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The Attache Culturel of the Swiss Embassy, Walter Haffner, welcomed the members of our society to the Swiss Embassy. He was followed by our president Erdmann Schmocker who greeted the attendees to the business meeting. He expressed the society's appreciation to Ambassador Carlo Jagmetti for hosting the meeting and for graciously inviting the participants to be his guests at lunch.
Obituaries
Swiss American Historical Society Review
On January 12, 1996, Hans Rudolf Guggisberg, professor emeritus of the University of Basel, died unexpectedly of a heart attack. On December 15, 1995, he had given his farewell lecture at the University in which he defined himself as a "student of history," as someone for whom personal as well as professional life was as much a process of continued learning as it was of teaching. He had specialized in the history of tolerance in the sixteenth century, especially as promoted by the theologian Sebastian Castellio (1515-1563) who had joined John Calvin at Strasbourg and Geneva; after theological disagreements with …
Agenda For The Business Meeting
Agenda For The Business Meeting
Swiss American Historical Society Review
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Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The first part of .this Review commemorates the founding of New Glarus one hundred and fifty years ago. The farewell address of Caspar Jenny (1812- 1860), a leading Glarnese citizen, speaks to us today as it did to the parting emigrants. The diary entry of Nildaus Durst (1797-1874), one of the two scouts who, after an extended journey through the Midwest, selected the land for the Glarnese emigrants, conveys some of the quiet excitement he felt during New Glarus' very first days. Jessica T. Skropanic, a New Glarnese at heart, offers a sober summary of the town's evolution and the …
Farewell Address To The Glarnese Emigrants Bound For New Glarus, April 15, 1845, Casper Jenny
Farewell Address To The Glarnese Emigrants Bound For New Glarus, April 15, 1845, Casper Jenny
Swiss American Historical Society Review
What our forefathers, who now rest in God, tried about 130 years ago, namely to organi7.e an emigration of Glarnese people, has now after many efforts become a reality in the fifth decade of the nineteenth century. On the 16th of April 1845, 196 citizens are leaving the homeland that is so dear to all of us, to seek under the guidance of the Emigration Society, which was founded in the year 1844, a new fatherland across the Atlantic Ocean. In order to safeguard all the best interests of the emigrants, the committee has seen fit to appoint two men …
Arrival And First Days In New Glarus, Niklaus Dürst
Arrival And First Days In New Glarus, Niklaus Dürst
Swiss American Historical Society Review
1845 on July 17th, we purchased for the esteemed Emigration Society of the Canton of Glarus, at the land office in Mineral Point, Wisconsin Territory, 1200 (twelve hundred) acres of land, namely in Greene County township 4 range 7, at the government price of 1 1/ 4 dollars per acre which on the following days we had surveyed and divided up in 60 lots (parcels) by the surveyor Comfort whom we had to pay wages of 3 dollars per day. Sunday, 20th inst. Mr. Friedrich Streiff and myself, together with our present wagoner, Mr. Friedrich Rudolf of Zurzach (Switzerland) have …
Book Review: Mari Sandoz: A Study In Post-Colonial Discourse, Elizabeth Blair
Book Review: Mari Sandoz: A Study In Post-Colonial Discourse, Elizabeth Blair
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Laura R. Villiger' s study is an ambitious and largely successful attempt to reposition this Swiss-American writer in light of contemporary post-colonial literary theory. The ninth volume in a series of publications by the Swiss American Historical Society, Villiger's study analyzes Sandoz' discourse and situates it within its historical, historiographical, and literary contexts.
Book Review: Captain Wirz. Eine Chronik. Ein Dokumentarischer Roman., Leo Schelbert
Book Review: Captain Wirz. Eine Chronik. Ein Dokumentarischer Roman., Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
This work, part novel, part chronicle, part historical reconstruction, pursues the thesis: "All involved with Andersonville were in the main pushed, manipulated, cheated" (189). This tale of misfortune has no heroes: Its central character is Henry Wirz, who for some months towards the end of his life was commander of Andersonville, one of the most notorious Confederate prisons for captured soldiers of the North.
From Visiting Scholar To Immigrant: A Memoir, Gustav T. Durrer
From Visiting Scholar To Immigrant: A Memoir, Gustav T. Durrer
Swiss American Historical Society Review
In younger years, with youthful optimism, one tends to project the future on a fairly straight line. Life usually alters that course. Circumstances change, and we change with them. Events in and around us shape our destiny. Roadblocks and crossroads force us to choose an unplanned route. 1939-45 was such a time when many lives were drastically changed, due to the dramatic developments in Europe and the Far East. These events were to alter the course of my life also.
New Glarus: Past Success And Future Challenges, Jessica T. Skropanic
New Glarus: Past Success And Future Challenges, Jessica T. Skropanic
Swiss American Historical Society Review
New Glarus had a good foundation for colonization. It had financial support from the sending society via the Emigration Society of Glarus. It was settled in a pleasant location with the resources necessary to gain a good start. Also, the surrounding communities were supportive of colonization. Many people from these communities were of German or Swiss origin and could speak the language fluently. This helped the newcomers to feel some connection with their new environment. The founders came in nuclear family units. This benefitted them in several ways. First, there was the emotional support family members gave to each other. …
Bombing The Sister Republic: The United States And Switzerland During World War Ii, James H. Hutson
Bombing The Sister Republic: The United States And Switzerland During World War Ii, James H. Hutson
Swiss American Historical Society Review
At 11:10 A.M., April 1, 1944, American military authorities in London received the following "strike message" from aircraft attacking a target in Europe: "392 Group bombed Last Resort with poor results at 10:50 hours. " This terse communication described the "gravest violation " of Swiss neutrality during the Second World War--in fact, during the entire twentieth century: the bombing of the city of Schafthausen by planes of the 2nd Division of the American 8th Army Air Force.
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.