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Medici Power And Patronage Under Cosimo The Elder And Lorenzo The Magnificent, Kelly Ann Gilbert

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

This paper looks at the Medici family’s rise to power and control over Florence. The main focus of the paper is on Cosimo de’ Medici, who is the man responsible for bringing his family to power. The first chapter looks at his business and familial connections and the ways that these relationships helped him gain power. The second chapter examines Cosimo’s role as patron of the arts and learning and the ways in which this helped to extend his influence. The third chapter looks at Cosimo’s grandson Lorenzo de’ Medici and the ways in which he continued the dominance of …

The Revolutions Of 1848 In Germany, Italy, And France, Jonathan Richard Hill

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

The Revolutions of 1848 were a widespread uprising that took place across Europe in response to social and economic pressures brought on by the eighteenth century Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. Conservative monarchs throughout Europe were threatened as middle and working class people attempted to establish new governments that allowed the common man a voice in government function. This thesis explores the reasons why the revolutions occurred in Germany, Italy, and France and why in each case the revolutions failed to achieve any significant change in each country.

Religious Tolerance In Sixteenth-Century Switzerland, Edmund J. Campion

Swiss American Historical Society Review

People do not generally associate the sixteenth century in Europe with religious tolerance and such an attitude is understandable, but it overlooks the small but relatively tolerant country of Switzerland. Elsewhere in Europe there was then, in fact, a great deal of religious intolerance and persecution. A few examples will illustrate very nicely how intolerant other European countries were at that time toward other religions.

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Sahs Annual Report 2004: Obituaries

Swiss American Historical Society Review

An obituary for Charles E. Ziegler (1929-2004) written by Philip R. Gelzer on September 16, 2004.

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Response To Edmund Campion's Film Review Of Luther, Christian P. Stehr

Swiss American Historical Society Review

After the success of the film BONHOEFFER: AGENT OF GRACE, with over 13 million viewers on U.S. Public Television,63 the same German-American production partners (NFPteleart Berlin and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans) took up a much larger project in 1999: an epic movie about the historic Martin Luther. The goal was to portray Luther in such a way that he would appeal to the young generations of the 21 st century, while making them understand why the man showed up on countless top ten lists of millennial figures. This essentially meant taking Luther off his pedestal to tell the real-life story …

The End Of The Reformation In Valais, Theol. Gerda Altpeter, Margot Durrer

Swiss American Historical Society Review

At the time of the Reformation, Valais was under the jurisdiction of France, Savoy and Spanish Milan. In the last decade of the 16th century and then more intensely in the 17th century, it became a theater for the dynamics of this power. Valais stood in a close relationship with their Savoyard neighbors that had evolved from a relationship of competition into a more friendly union by the 16th Century. The first accord came in 1528 when the Duke of Savoy withdrew from the district of Saint-Maurice, (conquered in 1475). In 1536 Valais engaged with Bern in a concentrated battle …

Sahs Annual Report 2004

Swiss American Historical Society Review

41st SAHS ANNUAL MEETING

Embassy of Switzerland

2900 Cathedral Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008

1. AGENDA FOR THE BUSINESS MEETING

2. REPORTS

A. Minutes of the Meeting,

B. President's Report

C. Nominating Committee Report

D. Special Report: New Glarus Committee

E. Membership Report

F. Treasurer's Report

G. Publications

3. PROGRAM FOR THE AFTERNOON MEETING

4. OBITUARIES

Sahs Annual Report 2004: Agenda

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Agenda for the Forty-First Annual SAHS Business Meeting

Sahs Annual Report 2004: Reports

Swiss American Historical Society Review

SAHS Annual Reports

A. Minutes of the Forty-First Annual Business Meeting

B. President's Report

C. Nominating Committee Report

D. Committee Report on the Swiss Center of North America in New Glarus, Wisconsin

E. Membership Report 2003-2004

F. Treasurer's Report

G. Report on Book Publications

Sahs Annual Report 2004: Program For The Afternoon Meeting

Swiss American Historical Society Review

SAHS Annual Report: Program for the Afternoon Meeting including presentations from Dr. Edmund J. Campion and Dr. Raoul Blindenbacher

Appendix: Swiss-American Organizations, Sites And Events

Swiss American Historical Society Review

A list of Swiss-American Organizations, sites and events organized by state.

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Danish Anti-Americanism: A Socio-Cultural Perspective, Poul Houe

The Bridge

In the spring of 2002, Granta, the distinguished "Magazine of New Writing," put out a special issue in which "twenty-four writers drawn from many countries" reflect on "What We Think of America." On the magazine's back cover, the occasion for their musings is presented as follows:

The September 11 attacks on the US provoked shock and pity in the rest of the world, but mingled with the sympathy was something harsher: anti-Americanism. It wasn't confined to the West Bank or Kabul. It could be heard in English country pubs, in the bars of Paris and Rome, the tea stalls of …

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Christine: The Life And Death Of A Danish American Medical Missionary In The Middle East, Jim Iversen

The Bridge

Recent world events have spawned renewed interest in the people and history of the Middle Eastern country known as Iraq. For many centuries the people and territories of what was known as Mesopotamia were part of the Ottoman Empire, which was ruled by the Sultan of Constantinople from the city now called Istanbul. Iraq did not become a separate country until the Ottoman Empire ceased to exist shortly after the "Great War," eventually called the First World War. The history of the area is complicated, but Iraq became a country essentially because the Western Allies, that is, Great Britain, France, …

Doc Christy, Borge M. Christensen

The Bridge

On February 17, 1892, a young man of twenty-five boarded the transatlantic steamer Hekla in the port of Copenhagen to emigrate to the United States of America as had many Danes before him. When he took the decision to emigrate we do not know; but that he was determined to leave is certain. His father died shortly before the departure date and the burial coincided with the sailing date. Why did he leave his home? What happened to him?

The Danish Interest Conference, Thorvald Hansen

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On January 1, 1963 The American Evangelical Lutheran Church ceased to exist as a separate entity. The AELC was the new name that had been assumed by the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1954. Therefore, what really came to an end in 1963 was the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church, which hereinafter shall be referred to simply as the Danish Church.

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