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Full-Text Articles in History
(Review) The Anabaptists, Marc R. Forster
(Review) The Anabaptists, Marc R. Forster
History Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
French Influences On The Historical And Nationalist Thought Of Nicolae Balcescu: An Inquiry Into The Structure Of Romanian Nationalism, Ion Matei Costinescu
French Influences On The Historical And Nationalist Thought Of Nicolae Balcescu: An Inquiry Into The Structure Of Romanian Nationalism, Ion Matei Costinescu
Masters Theses
In the past decade nationalism has been conceptualized as a cultural artifact, a product of invention and social engineering. Yet despite the flourishing interest in questions of national identity, we still have no theory explaining the reasons why nationalism presents itself in a manifold diversity of forms and aspirations. One way of . accounting for the malleability of modern nationalism is to approach it as a product of dialectical interactions between various national ideals. In this respect, the case of Romanian nationalism is particularly instructive. Its nineteenth-century proponents consciously borrowed and adapted French cultural mores and ideological forms since they …
Geneva, New Geneva... Usa, Erdmann Schmocker, Chau Nguyen
Geneva, New Geneva... Usa, Erdmann Schmocker, Chau Nguyen
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Two Swiss Of Peoria, Illinois, Marianne Burkhard
Two Swiss Of Peoria, Illinois, Marianne Burkhard
Swiss American Historical Society Review
In 1891, when he was 13, Emil Locher found himself transplanted to Peoria, Illinois, and faced with the necessity to help his mother and two siblings survive. His story gives some insight into working possibilities and conditions at the end of the last century. Without much schooling and without any professional training Emil Locher made his way up from a seasonal worker to the successful owner of a produce company without ever forgetting his poor childhood in Switzerland and the difficulties poor people have to face.
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The final issue of Volume 34 of the SAHS Review commemorates, first, the transformation of the Swiss polity undertaken a hundred years ago, that is its transformation from a league of states into a federal state. Simon Netzle explores specifically how the bicameral system adopted in 1787 by the framers of the second constitution of the United States became a feature also of the Swiss political system in 1848.
The Bicameral Form Of The 1787 Constitution Of The United States As A Model For The Formation Of The Swiss Federal State In 1848, Simon Netzle
Swiss American Historical Society Review
In 1848, the year of the creation of the present-day form of the Swiss Confederation, Switzerland adopted some of the main elements of the American constitution: the federal constitution and the bicameral legislative. This happened not only for practical reasons to unite the conservative and the liberal cantons after the Sonderbund War in 1847, but was rather the result of a particular Swiss perception of America which had prevailed since the late Enlightenment when the United States of America were regarded as an identical Sister Republic. In this way, Switzerland was given an adequate example of identification for its own …
Book Review: Phillip Schaff. Portrait Of An Immigrant Theologian, Barbara Dobschütz
Book Review: Phillip Schaff. Portrait Of An Immigrant Theologian, Barbara Dobschütz
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Living in the light of a larger world experience, Philip Schaff, a Swiss educated in Germany and living in America, became one of the nineteenth century's foremost church historians. As a biblical scholar and theologian, Schaff became an advocate of the Mercersburg theology or "mediating evangelical theology." Schaff's intellectual and theological development, Gary Pranger's recent portrait argues, was formed in the context of an European-American exchange. Schaff's immigrant experience also provided the basis on which his later achievements as an advocate for ecumenical cooperation would become possible. Furthermore, Pranger's thesis contends that Schaff's own experience mirrored the nineteenth century world …
Agenda For The Business Meeting
Agenda For The Business Meeting
Swiss American Historical Society Review
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Reports, Karl Niederer, Sabine Jessner, Carla Crosby, Erdmann Schmocker, Fred Moser, Ernest Thurston, Leo Schelbert
Reports, Karl Niederer, Sabine Jessner, Carla Crosby, Erdmann Schmocker, Fred Moser, Ernest Thurston, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
At 10:00 A.M., President Karl I. Niederer called the business meeting to order. He expressed the Society's thanks to His Excellency, Ambassador Alfred Defago for hosting this meeting and to staff Member Ms. Florence Nicole for having so efficiently taken care of all the local arrangements. The Society has traditionally met here in Washington every third year. Our Washington meetings also mark the conclusion of outgoing officers' three-year terms and the election of new officers, so meeting in this place has a special significance. Mr. Niederer also expressed his deep appreciation to Ambassador and Mrs. Defago for welcoming us to …
Program For The Afternoon Meeting And Obituary, Leo Schelbert
Program For The Afternoon Meeting And Obituary, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
On April 9, 1998, Dr. phil. Marthi Pritzker-Ehrlich, born in the City of Zurich September 23, 1944, died in Brugg, Switzerland, after a long struggle against cancer. She was an active and valued member of the SAHS. In the June 1983 issue of the SAHS Review Dr. Pritzker-Ehrlich published the article "Michael Schlatter: A Man in Between. A Contribution to American Ecclesiastical and Secular History of the Eighteenth Century," an overview of the life and activities of Reverend Schlatter, the organizer of the Swiss Reformed Church in Pennsylvania. It is a concise summary in English of Dr. Pritker-Ehrlich's dissertation, titled …
The Jewish Question In Eighteenth-Century France, Ronald Schechter
The Jewish Question In Eighteenth-Century France, Ronald Schechter
Arts & Sciences Articles
No abstract provided.
Maps Of Spain From The Enggass Collection, Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education
Maps Of Spain From The Enggass Collection, Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education
Osher Map Library Exhibition Catalogs
Maps of Spain from the Enggass Collection.
September 2, 1998 to October 6, 1999
An exhibition tracing the cartographic evolution of Iberia through a series of maps, from 1486 through 1829, donated by Dr. Peter M. Enggass, professor emeritus of Geography and Geology, Mt. Holyoke College.
Thompson Document 18: Letter From Henrietta Thompson To Bridget Croft, Henrietta Thompson
Thompson Document 18: Letter From Henrietta Thompson To Bridget Croft, Henrietta Thompson
Henrietta Thompson Papers
A final letter from Henrietta Thompson to Bridget Croft. It seems that the telephone conversation that prompted this letter was not an entirely felicitous one, and that Henrietta’s recommendation that Croft publish A Sense of Purpose was perhaps mistaken for a promise that Thompson would act on Croft’s behalf to that end.
Making An Early Medieval Ethnie: The Case Of The Early Slavs (Sixth To Seventh Century A.D. ), Florin Curta
Making An Early Medieval Ethnie: The Case Of The Early Slavs (Sixth To Seventh Century A.D. ), Florin Curta
Dissertations
This study approaches the problem of the early Slavs from the perspective of current anthropological theories on ethnicity. The relationship between material culture and ethnicity is also examined, with particular emphasis on the notion of style. The historiography of the subject is vast and its survey shows why and how a particular approach to the history of the early Slavs was favored by linguistically minded historians and archaeologists. The historiography of the early Slavs is also the story of how academic discourse was used for the construction of national identity.
The study of the written sources indicates that the history …
(Review) Der Schweizerische Bauernkrieg Von 1653, Marc R. Forster
(Review) Der Schweizerische Bauernkrieg Von 1653, Marc R. Forster
History Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
David Stevenson, Scotland's Last Royal Wedding: The Marriage Of James Vi And Anne Of Denmark, Albion 30, Michael Graham
David Stevenson, Scotland's Last Royal Wedding: The Marriage Of James Vi And Anne Of Denmark, Albion 30, Michael Graham
Michael F. Graham
No abstract provided.
Sir Hiram Maxim And His Gun: A Literary Trail, Charles Shain
Sir Hiram Maxim And His Gun: A Literary Trail, Charles Shain
Maine History
Hiram Maxim, born near Sangerville, Maine, in 1840, enjoyed a brilliant career as an inventor and self-promotor. His best-known invention, the Maxim gun, proved appallingly successful during the British imperialistic ventures in Africa at the turn of the century and later in World War I. In this article, Emeritus Professor Charles Shain traces the literary usages for Maxim ’s invention, both as noun and as a verb - describing the scything action of the gun as it mowed down an advancing foe. Charles Shain published and taught in the field of American Studies at Carleton College and for twelve years …
Warrior-Club Traditions In Medieval Switzerland, Arnold H. Price
Warrior-Club Traditions In Medieval Switzerland, Arnold H. Price
Swiss American Historical Society Review
This article endeavors to serve as an extension (as well as a confirmation) of my research on the role of warrior clubs during the era of migrations, the so-called Völkerwanderung. In regard to the Völkerwanderung terminology I am relying in this study primarily on the ground-breaking work of the late Hans Georg Wackemagel, whose novel anthropological approach unearthed and analyzed a substantial body of pagan traditions surviving in medieval Helvetia.
Book Review: Backstage Domains: Playing "William Tell" In Two Swiss Communities, Donald G. Tritt
Book Review: Backstage Domains: Playing "William Tell" In Two Swiss Communities, Donald G. Tritt
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Written by a folklore scholar, this book is a detailed, behind-the-scenes account of the many aspects required for staging Schiller's play, William Tell. To accomplish this, the author undertakes a comparative approach by studying production of the play in two Swiss communities, Altdorf and Interlaken - communities the author sees as "culturally distinct and each embodying different values of Swiss society." The author notes that Altdorf tends to be the guardian of Tell's memory while Interlaken functions at the forefront of Swiss tourism. Separate chapters on each of these two Swiss communities provides an interesting historical account of the area …
Die Stauffacherin Of Washington, D.C. In 1997, Simone Schoch
Die Stauffacherin Of Washington, D.C. In 1997, Simone Schoch
Swiss American Historical Society Review
This is a brief resume of the history of Die Stauffacherin as the society for Swiss ladies celebrates its 100th year. Die Staujfacherin is the oldest Swiss social society of the Washington, D.C. area. The society was formed at a conference held at the home of Mrs. Emil Holer on January 10th, 1897, under the guidance and leadership of Mr. John Hitz, a former Consul General of Switzerland and dedicated Swiss who worked closely with Alexander Graham Bell in the establishment of the Volta Bureau in Georgetown, Washington D.C., an institution dealing with the problems of the deaf. It is …
Book Review: The American Century: Varieties Of Culture In Modern Times, Fred Jordan
Book Review: The American Century: Varieties Of Culture In Modern Times, Fred Jordan
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Western civilization today is very technologically proficient but lacks the dynamic and creative ideas needed to launch a new cultural revolution. Bereft of a unique vision, our post-modern culture nostalgically borrows from the past, mining especially the gems of modernism. This exciting book by Norman F. Cantor, Professor of History, Sociology and Comparative History at New York University, is replete with such incisive observations. The work covers the whole gamut of twentieth century cultural history. Its core is a stimulating chapter on modernism which includes literature, theater, dance, drama, music, the visual arts, the social and behavioral sciences, history, theology, …
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert, H. Dwight Page
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert, H. Dwight Page
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Off To Dallas, Felix P. Bentz
Off To Dallas, Felix P. Bentz
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The nine short stories which you will read below represent "Chapter V" of my Memoirs. I began to write down the story of my life in 1991 after finishing my last project as a consultant. The initial reason for this was to tell my children and grandchildren about their ancestors and what it was like to be growing up in Switzerland.
Gemeindegeschichte Als Vergleichende Geschichte: The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints In East Germany, Bruce W. Hall
Gemeindegeschichte Als Vergleichende Geschichte: The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints In East Germany, Bruce W. Hall
Theses and Dissertations
From 1945 until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) endured the hardships of existing as a religious organization under a Communist regime. An evaluation of the LDS Church within the category of general and minority religions, which serves as a microcosmic evaluation of religion in the GDR, constitutes one part of this study. The uniqueness of the LDS Church and its experience - especially its American ties, ironically earlier a liability and later an asset - make it a candidate for a …