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Hans O. Staub, "The Tyranny Of Minorities," Daedalus, 108 (Summer, 1980), 159-68., Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The central thesis of Hans O. Staub, editor-in-chief of Zurich's Weltwoche, is sharply formulated: "It is not the majority that governs. Minorities of all kinds have become decision-makers; they dominate, they tyrannize, or terrorize the majority which appears principally as a conglomerate of constantly changing minorities" (p. 159). To prove his thesis, the author surveys recent events in Spain (Basques and Catalonians), France (Corsicans and Bretons), Great Britain (Welsh and Scots) , Switzerland (Jurassiens) and Germany ("Grunen") . (He could have added today's Iran with the rising dominance of the "Fundamentalists".) Staub then observes: The "flight into the minority …

List Of First Settlers Of New Basel

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Letter From The Editors, Leo Schelbert, Heinz K. Meier

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John Casparis And Edmund W. Vaz, Swiss Family, Society And Youth Culture. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1979., Bruno Gujer

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

This little monograph of around one hundred pages attempts to "show, for a comparative sociology of youth, that youth cultures are a systemic property of urban industrial society, and that no 'special' circumstances need to be invoked in order to explain their emergence and persistence." In the first two chapters, the authors briefly survey the salient features of modern Swiss society and the social world of Swiss youth. The study then focuses almost exclusively upon teenagers who upon leaving school enter an apprenticeship (51.3 percent of that age group in 1970). These young people, although more integrated into the working …

Don Yoder, "Palatine, Hessian, Dutchman: Three Images Of The German In America," Ebbes Fer Alle - Ebber Ebbes Fer Dich. Something For Everyone - Something For You. The Pennsylvania German Society, 14 (1980), 107-29, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

In this densely documented, lucidly structured, and learned article Don Yoder, Professor of Folklore and Religion at the University of Pennsylvania, explores eighteenth century roots of stereotypes for German- speaking immigrants and their descendants, regardless of their national origin . He traces the evolving meaning of the three terms ' Palatine', 'Hessian ', and ' Dutchman' in their historical context . As always, Professor Yoder transcends any myopic, America centered view and sees the emergence of the stereotypes in their broader Atlantic context . The at times in tense relationships between English and Palatine princely families and denominational groups, for …

Cliff Petersen's Collection Of U.S. Patent Models, Bret Farnum

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

In your genealogical studies, have you ever come across a journal, diary, or other written material that discusses a relative's attempt to receive a patent for some new and novel invention? Do you know for a fact that one of the people you are researching was involved in the "Spirit of Invention" that surged through the world, specifically the United States, during the 19th century? Or, just on a lark, maybe a subject of yours patented something and you don't even know it. If any of these possibilities are even remotely feasible, I can help provide you with some more …

Review: Don Yoder, Pennsylvania German Immigrants & Palatine Church Visitations, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

"This book has not one hero, but a multitude of heroes," comments Don Yoder in his foreword to Pennsylvania Immigrants. "The sources portray them with all their human shortcomings and all their faith and hope" 37 (p. x). This compact edition of previously published but dispersed lists combines the labors of European scholars with Don Yoder's expertise who not only translated and rearranged the material, but augmented it with. a wealth of American data. His edition contains five contributions with information on some 3,100 immigrants mainly to colonial Pennsylvania. It includes Elizabeth P. Bentley's index of names (pp. 341-391) …

Review: Erdmann Schmocker And Berchtold Weber, Altes Bern, Neues Bern, Ein Stadtbild Im Wandel Der Zeit. Bern: Benteli Verlag, 1979., Samuel Laeuchli

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The transformation of history takes place constantly. Language changes. Political structures replace each other. Man grows through the stages of his life. When we look back we recognize the extent of the changes, the path we had to come and "the forms we walked through" in the words of Gottfried Benn. One paradigm of transformation can be found in architecture, and two Swiss author, Erdmann Schmocker and Berchtold Weber, have created a beautiful book to demonstrate such a process in the case of the Swiss city of Bern. They show us how it grew from a medieval town to the …

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Danish Immigrant Materials: The Archives At Grand View College, Thorvald Hansen

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Will Rogers, who claimed partial Indian ancestry, used to like to point out that his ancestors met the Mayflower at the dock. Be that as it may, it is certain that the dock was not crowded. The fact is, as John F. Kennedy once wrote, that this is a nation of immigrants. The vast majority of us are descendants of immigrants. Therefore, the history of this country, particularly at the grassroots level, is a story enacted by the immigrant.

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My Brother Is Born, Holger O. Nielsen, Harald R. Jensen, Translator

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The day was February 14, 1889, and dusk had just fallen. As one looked over the western Nebraska prairie, the whole world was a huge blanket of glittering snow. The bright beams from the full moon fell upon the white snow, almost making day out of the night. Even the harsh Nebraska landscape was now white and soft, as gentle as a fairyland.

Scandinavian American Archives, J. R. Christianson

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The problem of locating and preserving Danish American historical materials has been in the spotlight in recent years. It has been discussed frequently in The Bridge and the Newsletter of the Danish American Heritage Society. In cooperation with Grand View College, the society launched a major project, the Danish Immigrant Archival Listing (DIAL), under Thorvald Hansen's leadership in 1979. That project aims to locate all Danish American historical materials presently deposited in archives and elsewhere throughout the United States, Canada and Denmark.

The Partridge, Martin A. Hansen, Inga Wiehl, Translator

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"Martin A. Hansen is considered one of the best and most influential Danish writers of the century. Despite his premature death in 1955 at the age of forty-six, he left a rich artistic legacy of novels, short stories, and travel descriptions as well as essays and books dealing with historical, cultural and philosophical themes.

'The Partridge' ('Agerhonen') is the title story of a collection of twelve short stories, all of which emphasize artistic expression as self-revelation. It is the means whereby the artist transforms the world and makes it new. The twelve stories are divided into three parts, childhood, adolescence …

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The Immigrant's Challenge To Dahs, Otto G. Hoiberg

The Bridge

During the half century preceding World War I, 300,000 Danish immigrants came to America, according to an estimate by Kristian Hvidt. Why did they come? Among many reasons, the Homestead Act of 1862 certainly stands out prominently. To the small-acreage farmers and the hired men in Danish agriculture, 160 acres of free, fertile land looked mighty inviting. Enthusiasm for migration was also generated by the glowing "Garden of Eden" advertising campaign conducted by America's railroads - a worthy prototype for today's Madison Avenue. Further, there were the so-called " America Letters" , received from relatives and friends already across the …

Rasmus Sorensen And Danish Emigration, 1847-1863, Frederick Hale

The Bridge

Probably no individual played a more seminal role in the limited Danish emigration to North America before and during the Civil War than Rasmus Sorensen. From the late 1840s until the early 1860s this author, educator, politician, and social reformer led three groups of his countrymen to Wisconsin and, through numerous booklets, speeches, and letters encouraged others to settle elsewhere in the United States and Canada. Yet Sorensen has generally been little more than a supernumerary in the historiography of this transatlantic migration. Its pioneering historian, Peter Sorensen Vig, devoted twelve pages to him in his mammoth compendium, a dozen …

Art? Among Danes In America?, Aase Bak

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The Danish American Heritage Society has as one of its objectives to "encourage Danish American expression in the arts, humanities, and social sciences." It is to be hoped that the Danish American Heritage Society will have more luck in its endeavors to promote the arts than did another organization with somewhat similar aims. I refer here to Dansk Folkesamfund (Danish People's Society) and the abortive attempt to launch an art committee under its auspices in 1897.

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Notes On Recent Publications, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Hans Syz, J. Jefferson Miller II, Rainer Ruckert Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection. Vol. 1: Meissen Porcelain and 'Hausmalerai'. Washington, D.C.: Smithonian Istitution Press, 1979. 607 pp., 400 ills.

Fritz Marti, editor and translator, The Unconditional in Human Knowledge. Four Early Essays (1794-1796) of F.W.J. Schelling. Lweisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press, 1980. 271 pp.

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Letter From The President, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The Annual Meeting of the Swiss American Historical Society will be held this year on Saturday, October 25, 1980, at the Kiva Auditorium of Temple University, located at the northeast corner of Broad Street and Columbia Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Professor Samuel Lauchli, a faculty member of Temple University's Departrrent of Religion and Honorary Consul for Switzerland, and Mrs. Theodore J. Finckh who has played a decisive role in the affairs of the SAHS for many years, will make the necessary arrangements. Their generous and indispensable help is gratefully acknowledged.

Urs Schwarz, The Eye Of The Hurricane: Switzerland In World War Two, Heinz K. Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

"Switzerland in World War II" has become a favorite object of investigation and subject of treatment by Swiss journalists, publicists, political scientists and historians. The flood of articles and monographs on every conceivable aspect of that topic has become so overwhelming as to make it almost impossible for one person to keep track of it, let alone read and digest it. And yet, according to Urs Schwarz, ther is a gap in this outpouring of hsitorical literature: There are no English language accounts on the role of neutral Switzerland in World War II. His Book The eye of the Hurricane …

Jacob Burckhardt, The Historian, As Analyst Of His Age, Walter L. Mullen

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Often the historian is faced with the question of how the study of the past relates to the present. Even when Leopold von Ranke's admonition is followed, and we try to tell history "as it essentially was" and eliminate subjectivity, purely personal opinions are difficult to keep out of formal academic work. Even when objectivity is attempted, the historian will have personal convictions about the object of his study in relation to his own existence.

Address To Swiss Living Abroad By The President Of The Swiss Confederation, Georges-Andre Chevallaz

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This 1st of August anniversary - commemorating the joint alliance sworn in the year 1921 by the three founding cantons of Switzerland, Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden --affords the President of the Swiss Confederation the welcome opportunity of addressing Swiss citizens abroad and also many foreign friends of Switzerland.

Printed Maps Of Utah To 1900: An Annotated Cartobibliography, Riley Moore Moffat

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Old maps are valuable research tools in many fields. Finding and identifying them, however, is often difficult. This annotated cartobibliography attempts to identify all maps of Utah printed before 1900. Entries give the distinguishing features, peculiarities, inaccuracies, and a general description as well as the map's provenance and citations in other lists and bibliographies.

The maps are listed chronologically and include all maps located in research collections in Utah, and in the catalogs of the Library of Congress and the Bancroft Library. Although the first entry is dated 1777, the first map of Utah made from actual observation, earlier maps …

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