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Every Man Crying Out: Elizabethan Anti-Catholic Pamphlets And The Birth Of English Anti-Papism, Carol Ellen Wheeler

Dissertations and Theses

To the Englishmen of the sixteenth century the structure of the universe seemed clear and logical. God had created and ordered it in such a way that everyone and everything had a specific, permanent place which carried with it appropriate duties and responsibilities. Primary among these requirements was obedience to one's betters, up the Chain of Being, to God. Unity demanded uniformity; obedience held the universe together. Within this context, the excommunication of Elizabeth Tudor in 1570 both redefined and intensified the strain between the crown and the various religious groups in the realm. Catholics had become traitors, or at …

Preparing For A Career, Paul Grossenbacher

Swiss American Historical Society Review

At the end of the fifth school year, we all had the opportunity to take an intelligence test and, if you passed that test, you then could go to secondary school, which is similar to high school here. Even though you were only a sixth grader, the subjects were algebra, physics, chemistry, and foreign languages. It is very important in Switzerland that one speaks several languages because in Switzerland, a country less than one-third the size of the state of Wisconsin, four official languages are spoken. About 19% speak a real good French, about 10% are Italian speaking, only 1% …

Searching For A Job In The United States, Paul Grossenbacher

Swiss American Historical Society Review

It was my brother's wedding day and, since I was best man in the wedding, I took a day off from work and went to Burgdorf. Ernst Josi said, "Paul, since you go through Bern, why don't you go to the American Embassy and apply for a visa to go to America?

Getting Married, Paul Grossenbacher

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Well, I was a farmer, and married farmhands were preferred over single men, so we talked about getting married. I sent that news back to Switzerland, but my oldest brother was not too happy about it.

Leaving The Farm, Paul Grossenbacher

Swiss American Historical Society Review

It was good to be back home again, but Verena enjoyed her first trip to Switzerland very much and she has made about five more trips since. She could learn where her ancestors came from. I was the owner of a farm then, and it was also the dairy which supplied New Glarus and later Monticello with milk. It was a good business, but we all really had to work too hard in those days. But we made a little money, and the day came when we could burn the mortgage.

Family Joys And Sorrows, Paul Grossenbacher

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Our two boys were only one year apart in age, and somehow we had to keep them busy. We bought nice accordions for each and had them take lessons.

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Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Growing Up In Burgdorf, Paul Grossenbacher

Swiss American Historical Society Review

When old age starts t:o creep up on you, start looking back. You will be amazed how many beautiful memories will come back to light. That is what I am trying to do, look back and try Ito find old memories. I was born into a family of two sisters and five brothers; no more children were born to my parents, so I stayed the youngest one and a mother's little boy. My home was the "innere Sommerhaus" on the edge of the small city of Burgdorf. Burgdorf is mostly called the door to the famous '"Emmenthal." The Emmenthal is …

Managing A Farm In France, Paul Grossenbacher

Swiss American Historical Society Review

After the one year in French-speaking Switzerland, it was then the time for you to decide on a profession, your life's work. I wanted to go to college (which was located 15 minutes walk from my home) and study to be a civil engineer, building roads and tunnels, etc.

Visiting Burgdorf After Sixteen Years, Paul Grossenbacher

Swiss American Historical Society Review

It was in 1945, on my mother's 80th birthday, that we called her from here by telephone. I was even teaching the girls a few things in Swiss, what they should tell their grandmother, whom they had never seen.

Keeping A Promise, Paul Grossenbacher

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Shortly after Eddy passed away, it was our silver wedding anniversary. I still remembered what I had promised Verena. We had 43 all reservations made, then we lost Eddy and we were going to cancel all of it, but our friends and our family told us we should go, it would be a good diversion for us.

Barry Morton Gough's Review Of Robert Langdon's The Lost Caravel Re-Explored, Barry Morton Gough

Pacific Studies

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On Being A Wisconsin Farmhand, Paul Grossenbacher

Swiss American Historical Society Review

The winter of 1929 is long remembered for the deep snow and the cold. Highway 69 from New Glarus to Monroe was closed many times and the mountains of snow the snowplows pushed were reaching the telephone wires.

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Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Between Responsibility And Rehabilitation: Austria In International Politics, 1940-1950, Günter Bischof

Center Austria Research

Cold War scholarship has frequently treated Austria as a Germany "sub-problem" in the critical early post-war era. Located in a crucial Central European geopolitical position, however, Austria became one of the early test cases for containing the Soviet Union. In fact, Austrian post-war history attests to an Anglo-Soviet "cold war" in 1945 preceding the better-known U.S.-Soviet Cold War that erupted on the world stage of history in 1946/47.

Much of previous scholarship has focused on interpreting the prolonged Austrian occupation exclusively through the prism of superpower tensions. Based on much new American, British, French, and Austrian archival evidence, this study …

The Congress Of Berlin Of 1878: Its Origins And Consequences, Kenneth Allen Shafer

Dissertations and Theses

Historians have expressed a variety of opinions concerning the true significance of the Congress of Berlin. While the 1878 meeting did not have to deal with questions as comprehensive as those discussed in Vienna in 1814-1815 or at Paris in 1856, the Congress of Berlin had great impact in its own right. While the Berlin meeting made decisions in order to reorganize the Balkans after years of instability and war, it also created a split in relations between the German Empire and Imperial Russia which would eventually drive the two powers towards conflict in "The Great War" in 1914.

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Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Ii. The Lloyd's And Switzerland, Georgia Lloyd

Swiss American Historical Society Review

My mother had many reasons to be drawn to Switzerland. Her father-in-law, Henry D. Lloyd, had spent time there. Geneva was the international headquarters of the League of Nations, and also of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom of which, along with Jane Addams, she had been a founder. A member of the Board, she wanted to attend the 1926 Congress of the W.I.L.P.F. being held in Dublin. She believed spending time in other countries was part of a good education.

Iv. William Bross Lloyd In His Own Words

Swiss American Historical Society Review

1. Solidarity and Autonomy: Africa and the Swiss Example

The Swiss Confederation grew out of the loose alliance in 1291 of three communities of peasants who were underprivileged, for the most part poor, and generally scorned by the elite of the period.

Front Matter, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Iii. From William E. Rappard's Preface To Waging Peace

Swiss American Historical Society Review

As many other American friends of the Society of Friends, William B. Lloyd, Jr., came to Europe after the Second World War bent on a quest for peace. pursued their pacific aims But whereas most of his brethren mainly by bringing comfort to the victims of war through their generosity and the example of human fellowship, Mr. Lloyd had another, more specific and more intellectual purpose besides.

I. Waging Peace: William Bross Lloyd's Uses Of The Swiss Experience, Christian D. Nokkentved

Swiss American Historical Society Review

For many Americans, scholar and lay alike, western Europe consists of the Big Three, England, Germany, and France. Monographs in English about the history and culture of Europe typjcally pertain only to them. On occasion another region or nation is included, but not unless "important" events took place there. Italy, for instance, only "existed" during the Renaissance, the Risorgimento, and again under Mussolini. Smaller countries like Switzerland, Portugal, or Denmark often do not get mentioned at all even when part of "world historical" phenomena. George Huppert exemplifies this approach in his newest book, After the Black Death: A Social History …

Signals Intelligence In World War Ii Ultra And The Air War In Europe, Demetrio J. Perez

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

(First paragraph) In recent years the study of military intelligence, particularly when viewed from a historical context, has acquired new significance. As military historians attempt to find a correlation between wartime events and the intelligence activities supporting those events, many serious works in this field have emerged. Some accounts of World War II military intelligence deal with the subject in terms of its benefits to the field commander. Others take a more extreme view and argue that major wartime successes resulted more from good intelligence than from good leadership.

The European Neutrals In World War Ii, Jerrold Michael Packard

Dissertations and Theses

The thesis begins with a short section on the nature of neutrality in Europe in the 1930s, and briefly introduces the political circumstances of the six nations that remained neutral throughout the war. The primary subject of the paper deals with the relationship between the belligerents and the neutral states, especially the extent to which military strength and preparedness was responsible for the latter maintaining their neutrality.

British Foreign Policy And The Crimean War A Study In Uncoordinated Diplomacy, Ronald W. Kennedy

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

This thesis is an examination of British Crimean War diplomacy. Under analysis is the pre-war era (1844-1853) and the war years (1854-1856). Intense diplomatic negotiations were in progress during most of the period immediately preceding and during the Crimean War. The diplomatic efforts to avoid war as well as negotiations to resolve the conflict were protracted and extremely complex.

This study is designed to examine British policy by focusing on what often characterized British efforts prior to, and during, the Crimean War: uncoordinated diplomacy. Although the British clearly wanted to avoid this war and to hasten its conclusion once fighting …

An Analysis Of Allied Bombing Strategies During World War Two, William Pepper

History Honors Papers

A survey of Allied bombing strategies during World War II uncovers striking differences between the bombing of Germany by the United States and Great Britain and the bombing of Japan, which was done by the United States only. That is, the bombing of the principal Axis powers - Germany and Japan - oftentimes differed in method and purpose. Part of the reason for these differences can be attributed to the geographical natures and resulting logistic problems of the two theaters. However, the logistics, though very important, cannot fully explain the differences between the bombing of Germany and the bombing of …

Literary Visions Of Edward Ii And Isabella Of France, Dana L. Sample

Institute for the Humanities Theses

The historical Edward II and Isabella of France do not always resemble the literary Edward and Isabella. Chronicles written after their deaths produced romances about their lives that to this day have colored historical scholarship. Other literature in the form of plays and novels have also been responsible for nurturing legends about Edward and Isabella. This thesis examines first the contemporary chronicles and government records in order to establish some facts about the ill-fated king and queen; then it analyzes the romances and the media that produced them, in an effort to test their reliability. Although some of the legends …

Phyllis S. Herda's Review Of Edwin N. Ferdon's Early Tonga: As The Explorers Saw It, 1616-1810, Phyllis S. Herda

Pacific Studies

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Iv. Varia, Sabine Jessner, Leo Schelbert, Walter Angst, Richard L. Tritt, Connie J. Tritt

Swiss American Historical Society Review

As a part of the American Historical Association's annual meeting in Cincinnati, the Swiss-American Historical Society held a special session on December 28, 1988. A good audience braved the snowy weather to meet in the Archives and Rare Books room of the Blegen Library at the University of Cincinnati to listen to three interesting presentations.

Front Matter, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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