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Book Review: Philippe Pierroz, Des Valaisans A Placerville. Haut Lieu De La Ruee Vers L' Or., Leo Schelbert
Book Review: Philippe Pierroz, Des Valaisans A Placerville. Haut Lieu De La Ruee Vers L' Or., Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
The Germans And Swiss At The Battle Of The Little Bighorn 1876, Albert Winkler
The Germans And Swiss At The Battle Of The Little Bighorn 1876, Albert Winkler
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The purpose of this study is to examine the Germans and the Swiss who participated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn to understand who they were, to assess their motives for joining the cavalry, and to appraise their experience in battle .
New Approaches To Swiss Colonial & Global History Workshop
New Approaches To Swiss Colonial & Global History Workshop
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Mission Sitting Bull: The Cultural Conquest Of The Sioux And Their Varied Response, S. Marianne Burkhard Osb Jcl
Book Review: Mission Sitting Bull: The Cultural Conquest Of The Sioux And Their Varied Response, S. Marianne Burkhard Osb Jcl
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Mapping The State: Cartographic Representations Of Switzerland, 1530-1865, James T. Lindberg
Mapping The State: Cartographic Representations Of Switzerland, 1530-1865, James T. Lindberg
Swiss American Historical Society Review
T his paper di scusses the relationship between cartography and the emergence of the Swiss state between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Maps are read as texts through an analysis of their visual components and contextualized within broader historical events. Each map illustrates a stage in the developing relationship between political ideas about Swiss territory and the representation of these ideas cartographically. Once space is represented as belonging to a specific polity, that space is 'territorialized' and becomes part of a perceived whole. Borders and related concepts such as ' boundary ' and 'frontier ' are central to this relationship …
Book Review: The Gilded Chalet: Off-Piste In Literary Switzerland, Christopher Cumo
Book Review: The Gilded Chalet: Off-Piste In Literary Switzerland, Christopher Cumo
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
William Tell Award And Its Recipients, C. Naseer Ahmad
William Tell Award And Its Recipients, C. Naseer Ahmad
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The legend of William (also referred as Wilhelm) Tell evokes the image of courage, skill and perseverance. Step into any public library and ask for something on William Tell and you are likely to find perhaps more than one book.
The Poet Jan Rainis During Swiss Exile, 1906-1920: Internationalism, Nationalism, And The Meaning Of ''A Free Latvia In A Free Russia'', Bryan K. Herman
The Poet Jan Rainis During Swiss Exile, 1906-1920: Internationalism, Nationalism, And The Meaning Of ''A Free Latvia In A Free Russia'', Bryan K. Herman
Swiss American Historical Society Review
T his opening quote appears in the 1949 Stalinist fi lm Rainis, one of several biographical films of cu ltural and scientific figures from the early years of the Cold War. The quote comes at the end of the film , just as Rainis prepares to leave his native Latvia and live under an assumed identity in Switzerland. The scene expresses the tensions of a writer from a relatively small nationality heading to an unknown land . However, instead of finding a strange and unfami liar land, the historic Rainis (Janis Plieksans, I 865-1929) fe lt welcomed and at home …
The Psychological Odyssey Of 1909: Carl Gustav Jung's Pivotal Encounter With Sigmund Freud During Their Journey To America, William E. Herman, Axel Fair-Schulz
The Psychological Odyssey Of 1909: Carl Gustav Jung's Pivotal Encounter With Sigmund Freud During Their Journey To America, William E. Herman, Axel Fair-Schulz
Swiss American Historical Society Review
M any volumes in the scholarly literature explore the complex evolution of the relationship between Carl Gustav Jung and Sigmund Freud as well as the eventual split between these two influential contributors to psychoanalytic thought and more generally to the field of psychology and other academic fields/professions. The events that transpired during the seven-week journey from Europe to America and back in the autumn of 1909 would serve as a catalyst to not only re-direct the lives of Jung and Freud along different paths , but also re-shape the roadmap of psychoanalytic thinking, clinical applications, and psychology. The 1909 visit …
Madame De Stael And Her Magnificent Salon At The Swiss Castle Of Coppet, Dwight Page
Madame De Stael And Her Magnificent Salon At The Swiss Castle Of Coppet, Dwight Page
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, one of the most influential Franco-Swiss writers of the nineteenth century, was the daughter of the prominent Swiss banker and statesman, Jacques Necker, the DirectorGeneral of Finance under King Louis XVI of France, and Suzanne Curchod, also of Swiss birth, who hosted one of the most popular literary salons of Paris during the late eighteenth century. Thus Madame de Stael was of direct Swiss descent . In addition, she had an intimate relationship with the Swiss Confederation throughout the entirety of her life, and she resided at her family's Castle of Coppet, near Geneva, for …
There Was Silence After Dawn: The Sinking Of The Wilhelm Gust/Off And Its Disappearance From History, Maren Johnson
There Was Silence After Dawn: The Sinking Of The Wilhelm Gust/Off And Its Disappearance From History, Maren Johnson
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Death was lurking beneath the surface of the sea in the form of a Soviet submarine which was slipping through the waves of the Baltic Sea . The men on the deck of the vessel glimpsed the lights of an ocean liner sliding across the icy water. The temperature of the water was be low freezing with snow falling, and the radar on the ocean liner was so cold it did not function .
Bank Shot: Swiss Banks And Swiss National Character In Daniel Silva's Mossad Spy Novel The English Assassin, Brian Champion
Bank Shot: Swiss Banks And Swiss National Character In Daniel Silva's Mossad Spy Novel The English Assassin, Brian Champion
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The American novelist Daniel Silva examines Switzerland, Swiss banks and the Swiss national character in his Israeli spy novel , The English Assassin, because the state of Israel , and by extension, all Jews, face a perpetual existential threat. A major force in the international thriller literature, Silva has written seventeen novels using Gabriel Allon , an assassin for Israel 's civilian intelligence service called Mossad, as a microscope through which various dimensions of Israel's existential threat are examined.
An 1880s Invitation To Buy Land In East Missouri And In Arkansas, Robert Wells
An 1880s Invitation To Buy Land In East Missouri And In Arkansas, Robert Wells
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Gottfried Egger And Johann Riitschi: Two Reports Of Swiss Emigrants Returning From The United States, Fabian Brandle
Gottfried Egger And Johann Riitschi: Two Reports Of Swiss Emigrants Returning From The United States, Fabian Brandle
Swiss American Historical Society Review
In his most recent , global history oriented study Jochem Oltmer, the noted German historian of migration concisely summarizes reasons for an actual migration. 1 Poverty was blocking social mobility, and generally absent life prospects or hoped for religious or political liberties in the destination country may also have been involved ; but there were always personal, biographical motives at play in the decision to change one's position for a time or for good and to risk a new and generally difficult start somewhere else . Individual circumstances such as the breakup of a relationship, piled up debts, conflicts with …
Swiss In Washington, D.C. To Late 1887: A Report, Adelrich Steinach
Swiss In Washington, D.C. To Late 1887: A Report, Adelrich Steinach
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
A Swiss Artist, An Iconic American General And An Ambitious Federal Councilor, David Vogelsanger
A Swiss Artist, An Iconic American General And An Ambitious Federal Councilor, David Vogelsanger
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Lexington, October 22, 1869. A man boards a canal boat returning from the small Virginia town to a known world , Washington D.C., New York and eventually home to Switzerland . In his luggage he carries a large oil portrait sti ll smelling of fresh paint. Frank Buchser has just finished one of his best paintings, lived some of the most remarkable four weeks of his adventurous live and experienced a kind of political conversion .
Book Review: Clive Church, Political Change In Switzerland: From Stability To Uncertainty, Kevin Cronin
Book Review: Clive Church, Political Change In Switzerland: From Stability To Uncertainty, Kevin Cronin
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.