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Full-Text Articles in European Languages and Societies
Europe’S Refugee Crisis: Assessing The Factors Preventing A Coordinated Eu Response, Ali Albassam
Europe’S Refugee Crisis: Assessing The Factors Preventing A Coordinated Eu Response, Ali Albassam
Master's Theses
In order to escape increasing political violence in the Middle East and Africa, many refugees are fleeing by sea to seek asylum in Europe. As a result, Europe has witnessed the highest influx of refugees since World War Two. European Union member states have scrambled for a solution, seemingly unable to form a collective response. The reemergence of nationalism amid the arrival of thousands of refugees not only clouds Europe’s moral compass, but also weakens the EU and its founding principles. In an effort to contribute to the protection of refugees and the EU and its values, this thesis aims …
Genocide In German South West Africa & The Herero Reparations Movement, Melanie Bracht
Genocide In German South West Africa & The Herero Reparations Movement, Melanie Bracht
Senior Theses
During my spring 2015 Semester at Sea voyage, the ship docked in Walvis Bay, Namibia for five days. Prior to the voyage, I knew nothing about Namibia’s history. I was surprised to learn of its treacherous past and the role Germany played in shaping its political and economic condition. I took a tour of the Himba settlement, driving hours across the barren, dry land to a small circle of huts. Women cover their skin with red clay and continue the tradition of sauna bathes, never bathing in water in their entire lives. The Himba culture was captivating and it was …
A New Patriotic Song For Switzerland Based On Brecht's Children's Hymn, Elmar Holenstein
A New Patriotic Song For Switzerland Based On Brecht's Children's Hymn, Elmar Holenstein
Swiss American Historical Society Review
In 2013, the Schweizerische Gemeinnutzige Gesellschaft (SGG I Swiss Society for Public Utility) announced a competition for a new national anthem. 1 Within a year, more than 200 entries were submitted. At the end of March 2015, six to be discussed nationwide were released. Once sufficiently distributed and found to be popular, the winning version was to be recommended to the federal government as the new national anthem.
Book Review: Against War And Empire: Geneva, Britain, And France In The Eighteenth Century, Eric Rexroat Ph.D. Candidate
Book Review: Against War And Empire: Geneva, Britain, And France In The Eighteenth Century, Eric Rexroat Ph.D. Candidate
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Book Review: The Hutterites In North America, Christopher Cumo
Book Review: The Hutterites In North America, Christopher Cumo
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
New Books And Articles Concerning Leo Lesquereux (1806-1889), Donald Tritt
New Books And Articles Concerning Leo Lesquereux (1806-1889), Donald Tritt
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Nine years ago the SwissAmericanHistorical Society sponsored publication of the book Leo Lesquereux, Letters from America 1849- 1853 (Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, 2006), a translation from the French by H. Dwight Page of Lesquereux 's Lettres d' Amerique 1849- 1853 with editing and commentary by Wendy Everham. I offered to write a biography for this work, titled "Leo Lesquereux: The Arduous Path of a Nineteenth Century Natural Scientist" (pp.1-122). In addition to being a biographical narrative, this section also contained six appendices that list Lesquereux 's publications, secondary references to his works, the titles in his library, and archival collections …
The Swiss Of Louisville, Kentucky In The Late 1880s, Adelrich Steinach
The Swiss Of Louisville, Kentucky In The Late 1880s, Adelrich Steinach
Swiss American Historical Society Review
In the state of Kentucky, there are two larger Swiss colonies , one in Louisville, the other in Bernstadt, as well as various places that were settled by Swiss families.
Asian Values-Swiss Values?, Elmar Holenstein
Asian Values-Swiss Values?, Elmar Holenstein
Swiss American Historical Society Review
For years one is reading of "Asian values." Traveling through Asia, one is rubbing one's eyes. The whole of Asia, from the Bosporus and Ural all the way to the Pacific Ocean, is thrown into one great pot, as if they all, Turkic peoples and Mongols, Arabs, Iranians and Malaysians as well as Chinese, Koreans and Japanese had been educated by Confucius. Business people as well as political scientists who tell us of "Asiatic values" are flying in twelve hours from Frankfurt and Zurich to Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo. Those shortcuts therefore?
Swiss In The American Civil War A Forgotten Chapter Of Our Military History, David Vogelsanger
Swiss In The American Civil War A Forgotten Chapter Of Our Military History, David Vogelsanger
Swiss American Historical Society Review
In no foreign conflict since the Battle of Marignano in 1515, except Napoleon's Russian campaign, have as many soldiers of Swiss origin fought as in the American War of Secession. It is an undertaking of great merit to rescue this important and little known fact from oblivion and it is a privilege for me to introduce this concise study by my friend Heinrich L. Wirz and his co-author Florian A. Strahm. The Swiss, mostly volunteers, who went to war either to preserve the Union against the secession of the southern States or for the independence of those same States , …
Book Review: Beyond The Lens Of Conservation: Malagasy And Swiss Imaginations Of One Another, John H. Barnhill Ph.D.
Book Review: Beyond The Lens Of Conservation: Malagasy And Swiss Imaginations Of One Another, John H. Barnhill Ph.D.
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
"Greet Me The Homeland!" Marguerite Nerny-Stager-The Oldest Swiss Canadian Turns 110 Years, Susann Bosshard-Kalin
"Greet Me The Homeland!" Marguerite Nerny-Stager-The Oldest Swiss Canadian Turns 110 Years, Susann Bosshard-Kalin
Swiss American Historical Society Review
She emigrated 86 years ago because of Eugene. At the end of June 1929, the Vaudois Marguerite Stager was traveling by herself on the Empress of Australia to Canada. Love for her betrothed from Yverdon, who years before had found work as a baker in Montreal, gave her unshakeable confidence. She dared to face an uncertain future in a foreign land . Today, the oldest Swiss woman abroad in North America is living in a retirement home about an hour outside of Montreal. In the company of Maurice, her 83 year-old son , a short visit of Marguerite became possible. …
Einsiedeln Elsewhere A 2015 Report About Re-Activating Ties With Louisville, Kentucky, Susann Bosshard-Kalin
Einsiedeln Elsewhere A 2015 Report About Re-Activating Ties With Louisville, Kentucky, Susann Bosshard-Kalin
Swiss American Historical Society Review
For years the idea has pursued me to look for the traces of Swiss from the town of Einsiedeln who had settled in the city of Louisville situated on the lower Ohio River. In the year 2006 when I was on a journalistic assignment for the Neue Zlircher Zeitung related to the Benedictine monastery St. Meinrad in southern Indiana, I was fortunate to meet people with ancestors from my hometown Einsiedeln. I met eight descendants-Kaelins, Schoenbaechlers, Birchlers, Bisigs-for coffee and I thought already then how fascinating it would be to take a closer look at the trails of those emigrants …
Elmar Holenstein: Portrait Of A Swiss Philosopher
Elmar Holenstein: Portrait Of A Swiss Philosopher
Swiss American Historical Society Review
From 1964 to 1972 El mar Holenstein, born 7 January 193 7 in Gossau, Canton St. Gallen, studied philosophy, psychology, and linguistics at the universities of Louvain/Leuven, Heidelberg, and Zurich. His Ph.D. dissertation dealt with the phenomenology of the pre- and non-conceptual human experience as explored by Edward Husserl (1859-1938), the German founder of the phenomenological movement in philosophy. Holenstein gained professorial status (habilitation) by a book on the phenomenological structuralism of Roman Jakobson.
A Bibliographical Guide To The Study Of The Troubadours And Old Occitan Literature, Robert A. Taylor
A Bibliographical Guide To The Study Of The Troubadours And Old Occitan Literature, Robert A. Taylor
Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Although it seemed in the mid-1970s that the study of the troubadours and of Occitan literature had reached a sort of zenith, it has since become apparent that this moment was merely a plateau from which an intensive renewal was being launched. In this new bibliographic guide to Occitan and troubadour literature, Robert Taylor provides a definitive survey of the field of Occitan literary studies - from the earliest enigmatic texts to the fifteenth-century works of Occitano-Catalan poet Jordi de Sant Jordi - and treats over two thousand recent books and articles with full annotations. Taylor includes articles on related …
The 'Schemes' Of Piero De' Pazzi And The Conflict With The Medici (1461–2), Oren J. Margolis, Brian Maxson
The 'Schemes' Of Piero De' Pazzi And The Conflict With The Medici (1461–2), Oren J. Margolis, Brian Maxson
Brian J. Maxson
Documentation And Fiction In Hameiri's Accounts Of The Great War, Tamar S. Drukker
Documentation And Fiction In Hameiri's Accounts Of The Great War, Tamar S. Drukker
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "Documentation and Fiction in Hameiri's Accounts of the Great War" Tamar S. Drukker discusses the only surviving Hebrew-language docu-novel of the Great War, written by Avigdor Hameiri (1890-1970), a Hungarian Jewish officer. His 1930 memoir The Great Madness is a wartime personal journal about his life at the Russian front. Many of the episodes described in The Great Madness receive a more styled treatment in Hameiri's wartime short stories which appeared in three collections during the 1920s. These stories are sometimes surreal, symbolic, and carefully crafted. Drukker's study of Hameiri's wartime life writing and his literary rendition …
Ms-184: Henry Louis Baugher, Class Of 1857, Travel Diary, Elizabeth P. Steinhour
Ms-184: Henry Louis Baugher, Class Of 1857, Travel Diary, Elizabeth P. Steinhour
All Finding Aids
The diary consists of one 351 page travel journal including 7 pages of plant samples included at the end of the diary. He wrote about churches he attended in Europe, the scenery, hikes, and historical events including the French Revolution in Paris and the Glencoe Massacre in the Scottish Highlands.
Book Review: Slow Train To Switzerland, Robert Sherwood
Book Review: Slow Train To Switzerland, Robert Sherwood
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
The Swiss In The American Civil War 1861-1865
The Swiss In The American Civil War 1861-1865
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
A Personal Introduction, Heinrich L. Wirz
A Personal Introduction, Heinrich L. Wirz
Swiss American Historical Society Review
For the first time, this study presents biographical data on l 06 men who were of Swiss nationality or descent, and who participated in the American Civil War. Most of these men were officers. The American Civil War froml861 to 1865 has largely been forgotten in Switzerland. The significance of the war is often overlooked including its sociopolitical impact as well as its military strategic, operational, and tactical importance. This study presents data relating to important Swiss military personnel. At the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the conflict in 2011, a few newspaper articles in Switzerland appeared discussing the …
Swiss Officers And Prominent Personalities
Swiss Officers And Prominent Personalities
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The United States census of 1860 listed 53,327 Swiss-born residents who represented 1.3 percent of the foreign-born in the nation. John (Johannes) Hitz, Sr. ( I 797- 1864), Swiss Consul General from 1853- 1864 in Washington, D.C., estimated the number of Swiss serving during the Civil War in the Union Army at 6,000. In his 1862 register of names, he listed 537 Swiss in the military. In 1863, he included an additional 302 men. He presented no separate lists for 1861 , 1864, and 1865. Paul de Valliere stated that 4,000 Swiss served in the Union Army in his monumental …
Alphabetical List Of 106 Swiss Officers With Short Biographical Entries
Alphabetical List Of 106 Swiss Officers With Short Biographical Entries
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.