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The Changing Attitudes Towards The Jews Of England 1066-1660, Bernard Glassman

History Theses & Dissertations

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Pages From The History Of The New York Swiss, Dr. Heinz K. Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

In the course of my work on U.S.-Swiss relations I often comes across the name of New York and the activities of the Swiss living in that city or its neighborhood. New York was the place where the earliest permanent official contact was established between the two countries when a consulate was opened under Henri Casimer de Rham of Ynerdon in the summer of 1822. New York was the first consular district in the U.S. to become a permanent consulate general in 1933. New York was the place that received first the majority of Swiss immigrants to the United States …

Reminiscenses And Reflections, Alphonse A. Kubly, Dr. Leo Schelbert, L. B.

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Before the advent of Mr. Collier, Everglades had been a sport-fisherman's outpost. There was an inn, the Rod & Gun Club, catering to yacht-borne fishing enthusiasts, and three or four small bungalows harbored families who made their modest living as guides. Now Everglades was going to be reshaped in a manner to do honor to its role as Country seat. There were many reminders of Mrs. Collier's favorite field of action: New York City. Approaching by boat, a street sign with the incongruous legend "Riverside Drive" had come into view. There also was the unavoidable Broadway. Along the boat pier …

Letter, Dr. Lukas Burckhardt

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

To the Members and Friends of the SAHS ,

1 ) This issue of our Newsletter is entirely dedicated to the autobiography of one of our members , the civil-engineer Alphonse Kubly from Netstal in the canton of Glarus whose home is now in New York. It is a fascinating document, full of thoughtful observations on his youth in a typical Glarner milieu, where he grew up under the high moral standards of a family prominent in the tratidional textile industry, on his adolescence in the chaotic period of the twenties in Switzerland and in Germany, and on his new …

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The Fourth Annual Meeting Of The Reactivated Swiss-American Historical Society, Dr. Lukas Burckhardt

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The Business Meeting

1) Attendance

The fourth Annual Meeting of the reactivated Swiss-American Historical Society, to which the members had been invited by circular letters of September 12 and of the latter part of that month, took place in the Conference Hall of the Embassy of Switzerland in Washington, D.C., on October 21, 1967.

Letter, Dr. Lukas Burckhardt

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Dear Member,

In the enclosure I am sending you:

1) Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the SAHS

2) List of SAHS Officers, Honorary and Board Members for 1963

3) Revised SAHS Membership List as of April 1963

4) "Pages from the History of the New York Swiss" by Dr. Heinz K. Meier from the Amerikanische Schweizer Zeitung

A Survey Of Prussian Foreign Policy As Formulated By Otto Eduard Leopold Von Bismarck And Resulting In The Unification Of Germany And The Creation Of The German Empire, Wayne Ray Moore

Theses & Honors Papers

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Germany's Rise To Power: Role Of The House Of Krupp In German Militarism, Marian Mathison Desrosiers

Class of 1968 Legacy Project

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of Seminar 400, May 24, 1968.

Reconstructing Shabazz : Images Of The Black Man In Four Black Plays, William Charles Thompson

Master's Theses

When Elizabeth I ascended the throne in 1558, she was confronted with a changing economic situation. English industry, which had for centuries been localized in the towns under guild control, was maturing and becoming national in scope. In accordance with the prevailing economic precepts of the age, Elizabeth desired to bring industry under a system of national regulation. Such a system of regulation was, however, even for the strongest and most ingenious of the Tudor autocrats, a difficult and elusive goal. Plagued throughout her long reign by a shortage of funds, Elizabeth simply could not afford to involved the state …

Monopolies During The Reign Of James I., William Charles Thompson

Master's Theses

The Statue of Monopolies or 1624 occupies a prominent place in the economic history of England. It was the first national patent law to contain all the essentials, and thereby made a large contribution to England's later technical progress.

The Soviet System And The Historian: E.V. Tarle (1875-1955) As A Case Study, Sidney Robert Sherter

Wayne State University Dissertations

Ever since the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Soviet leaders have viewed the field of history as the most political of the social sciences. Soviet historiography, as a result, has been conditioned by political events; and Marxist-Leninist ideology, also affected by politics, has been used as its philosophical justification.

The flexibility of Soviet ideology has created an almost insurmountable obstacle for the historian. The ra­ tionale behind historical scholarship has been and still is utility, with the historian being used as a tool in support of ideological or political platforms proposed by the Party. As an employee of the state, the …

The Reconciliation Of Science And Religion In Symbolo-Fideism, Shirley Brown Moon

Wayne State University Dissertations

From the publication in 1859 of On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, religion was in open warfare against science. By the end of the century the war was not going well for religion. Biology, anthropology, archeology, the "higher criticism" united in an attack on Christian premises, while "applied science" — technology-provided, the materialistic comforts which made Christian promises utopian and unnecessary. The reaction of some Protestant and Catholic leaders to this threat from science was a retreat into funda­mentalism. Others hastened to show that the recent discoveries were not really in conflict with religious truths at …

History Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints In Ireland Since 1840, Brent A. Barlow

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis pertains to the efforts of the Mormons in establishing their Church among the Irish and is arranged to give a chronological account of activities there. A brief background of the establishment of Christianity in Ireland and a knowledge of numerous conflicts between Catholics and Protestants helps to understand the complex religious interaction occurring at the time Mormonism was introduced in that country. The difficulties encountered by the first Mormon missionaries in Ireland suggest reasons why the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints did not expand as rapidly as it did elsewhere in Britain and other European countries. …

German-Benelux Relations 1919-1940, James Thomas West

Masters Theses

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The Scottish Highland Regiments In The French And Indian War, Nelson Orion Westphal

Masters Theses

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Bericht Von L. Burkhardt Über Seinen Besuch In New Glarus Überdas Labor Day Weekend 1967, Dr. Lukas Burckhardt

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

In der Gemeinde New Glarus in Wisconsin finden seit dreissig Jahren über das Labor Day Weekend Anfang September Freilicht-aufführungen von Schillers Drama Wilhelm Tell statt. Au Einladung des Gemeindepräsidenten Waldo Freitag wurde dieses Tell-Spiel dieses Jahr von Herrn und Frau Generalkonsul E. Theiler in Chicago und von mir besucht. Herr und Frau Botschafter F. Schnyder konnten der Einladung leider nicht Folge leisten, da sie zu jener Zeit in der Schweiz weilten.

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The Nature Of Swiss Drawings, Dr. Francois Bucher

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The exhibition of Swiss drawings which travels from Washington, D.C. (October 7 -29, 1967) to New York (Pierpont Morgan Library: November 15, 1967 - January 2, 1968), San Francisco (M.H. de young Memorial Museum: January 14 - February 12, 1968) and Chicago (Art Institute: February 24 - March 26, 1968) 1) poses two problems:

1) Why did drawing and generally graphic expression play such an important role in the work of Swiss artists from Urs Graf to Giacometti?

2) What was the role of Swiss art within the European creative community, in other words, what is its qualitative position?

An Exhibition Of Swiss Drawings Shown In The U.S., Dr. Lukas Burckhardt

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

On October 7, 1967, the exhibition "Swiss Drawings, Masterpieces of Five Centuries" opened at t he National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. It will stay here until October 29, 1967, and will then travel to New York to be shown at the Pierpont Morgan Library from November 15 1967 - January 2 1968. After their showing in New York , the drawings will be exhibited at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco from January 14 - February 12, 1968, and at the Art Institute in Chicago from February 2i4 - March 26, 1968.

Iron Vs. Gold : A Study Of The Three Anglo-Dutch Wars, 1652-1674, William Terry Curtler

Master's Theses

The purpose of this paper is to show that, as the result of twenty-two years of intermittent warfare between England and the Netherlands, the English navy became established as the primary naval power of Europe. Also, I intend to illustrate that, as a by-product of this naval warfare, Dutch trade was seriously hurt, with the·major benefactors of this Dutch loss of trade being the English.

This paper grew out of a seminar paper on the first Anglo-Dutch war for a Tudor and Stuart English History graduate seminar class taught in the fall of 1966 by Dr. John R. Rilling …

Swiss Homeland Books (Schweizer Heimatcuecher) In English

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The publisher Paul Haupt, Akademische Buchhandlung, Verlag, Buchhandlung, Falkenplatz 14, 3001 Bern, has kindly sent us the English editions of his series of "Heimatbucher" and of a few related publications for review. Here is a list of these editions:

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 …

Editorial Comments

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

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The Johanna Spyri Foundation In Zuerich Needs Our Cooperation For The Establishment Of Its Johanna Spyri Archives

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

No single book has done more to create a favorable image of Switzerland throughout the world, including the U.S., than Johanna Spyri's "Heidi", first published in 1881.

A Swiss View On The American Civil War, Dr. Hans Rudolf Guggisberg

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

About a year ago, the Ticino chapter of the Swiss Officers' Society published a special supplement to tis journal, the Rivista militare della Svizzera italiana. It is a little book of about 120 pages, nicely printed, well edited, and embellished with a number of good illustrations. The contents are of surprising interest to students of Swiss military history as well as to those of the America Civil War. This is the reason why we believe that the volume should be brought to the attention of the readers of the SAHS Newsletter. It contains the first publication of the repots of …

An Evaluation Of Swiss Wines By An America Wine Authority

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

On the occasion of a tasting of Swiss wines for "Les Amis du Vin" of Washington, D.C., we met the New Yorker wine authority Creighton Churchill who then sent us his work "The World of Wines". Collier Books, New York, 1967. Mr. Churchill loves our good wines and qualifies them in his short chapter on Switzerland with the statement:

A Swiss In The U.S. Looks At His Childhood In Graubuenden, Dr. Augustin Maissen, Jürg Gabriel

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

A Poem in Romansh by Dr. Augustin Maissen with an English translation by Jurg Gabriel

This poem by Dr. Augustin Maissen is part of a series entitled "Solituds. Poesias d'ultramar" and published in "Igl Ischi" (i.e. The Maple Tree), "Organ della Romania. Anna tschunconta - Ediziun Festiva" (i.e. Publication of the Romania, 50th year, anniversary edition), Bunder Tagblatt, Cuera (Chur), 1964 (predated), editor Dr. Alfons Maissen, page 129.

Swiss Children's Books Published In English In The United States

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., has recently opened a special Children's Book Section. Its Head, Miss Virginia Haviland, has kindly provided us with this useful list which we offer here to our readers:

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