
The Story of Switzerland
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The Story of Switzerland by Lina Hug and Richard Stead hor Hug, Lina Author Stead, Richard Title The Story of Switzerland Language English Category Text For many reasons, some of which are obvious to the least thoughtful, the history of Switzerland is peculiarly interesting, and not least so to English-speaking peoples. In the first place, the "playground of Europe" is every year visited by large numbers of British and Americans, some of whom indeed are familiar with almost every corner of it. Then to the Anglo-Saxon race the grand spectacle of a handful of freemen nobly struggling for and mai...
Chapters (563)
- The Story of the Nations
- THE STORY OF SWITZERLAND
- LINA HUG
- AND
- RICHARD STEAD
- THE STORY OF THE NATIONS
- 12MO, ILLUSTRATED. PER VOL., $1.50
- THE EARLIER VOLUMES ARE
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
- IX.
- X.
- XI.
- XII.
- XIII.
- XIV.
- XV.
- XVI.
- XVII.
- XVIII.
- XIX.
- XX.
- XXI.
- XXII.
- XXIII.
- XXIV.
- XXV.
- XXVI.
- XXVII.
- XXVIII.
- XXIX.
- XXX.
- XXXI.
- XXXII.
- XXXIII.
- XXXIV.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- TABLE
- SHOWING NAMES (GERMAN AND FRENCH), AREAS, AND POPULATIONS OF CANTONS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE STORY OF SWITZERLAND.
- I.
- THE LAKE DWELLERS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- II.
- THE HELVETIANS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- III.
- HELVETIA UNDER THE ROMANS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- IV.
- THE ANCESTORS OF THE SWISS NATION. THE ALAMANNI; BURGUNDIANS; FRANKS; MEROVINGIANS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- V.
- THE CAROLINGIANS—CHARLEMAGNE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- VI.
- THE KINGDOM OF BURGUNDY; THE DUCHY OF SWABIA; AND THE GERMAN EMPIRE. (843-1100.)
- GENEALOGICAL TABLES. I. The Carlowingians (so far as they concern this history).
- II. Descent of the Saxon Emperors.
- FOOTNOTES:
- VII.
- BURGUNDY AND SWABIA UNDER THE GERMAN EMPERORS.
- VIII.
- THE REIGN OF THE HOUSE OF ZAERINGEN. (1050-1218.)
- FOOTNOTES:
- IX.
- THE HOUSES OF KYBURG, SAVOY, AND HABSBURG. (1218-1273.)
- FOOTNOTES:
- X.
- THE CONFEDERATION, OR EIDGENOSSENSCHAFT. (1231-1291.)
- FOOTNOTES:
- XI.
- THE BATTLE OF MORGARTEN. (1315.)
- XII.
- THE LEAGUE OF THE EIGHT STATES. (1332-68.)
- FOOTNOTES:
- XIII.
- ZURICH AN EXAMPLE OF A SWISS TOWN IN THE MIDDLE AGES. (853-1357.)
- FOOTNOTES:
- XIV.
- BERN CRUSHES THE NOBILITY: GREAT VICTORY OF LAUPEN, 1339.
- FOOTNOTES:
- XV.
- THE BATTLES OF SEMPACH, 1386, AND NAEFELS, 1388.
- XVI.
- HOW SWITZERLAND CAME TO HAVE SUBJECT LANDS. (1400-1450.)
- FOOTNOTES:
- XVII.
- WAR BETWEEN ZURICH AND SCHWYZ. (1436-1450.)
- XVIII.
- BURGUNDIAN WARS. (1474-1477.)
- FOOTNOTES:
- XIX.
- MEETING AT STANZ, 1481, &C.
- XX.
- THE LEAGUE OF THE THIRTEEN CANTONS COMPLETED. (1513.)
- FOOTNOTES:
- XXI.
- THE GREAT COUNCILS; THE LANDSGEMEINDE AND TAGSATZUNG, OR DIET; LITERATURE IN THE HEROIC AGE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- XXII.
- THE REFORMATION IN GERMAN SWITZERLAND. (1484-1531.)
- FOOTNOTES:
- XXIII.
- THE REFORMATION IN WEST SWITZERLAND. (1530-1536.)
- FOOTNOTES:
- XXIV.
- GENEVA AND CALVIN. (1536-1564.)
- FOOTNOTES:
- XXV.
- THE CATHOLIC REACTION.
- FOOTNOTES:
- XXVI.
- THE ARISTOCRATIC PERIOD. (1600-1712.)
- FOOTNOTES:
- XXVII.
- POLITICAL MATTERS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
- FOOTNOTES:
- XXVIII.
- SWITZERLAND AND THE RENAISSANCE. INFLUENCE OF VOLTAIRE AND ROUSSEAU.
- FOOTNOTES:
- XXXI.
- THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND SWITZERLAND. (1790-1798.)
- FOOTNOTES:
- XXX.
- THE "ONE AND UNDIVIDED HELVETIC REPUBLIC." (1798-1803.)
- FOOTNOTES:
- XXXI.
- THE MEDIATION ACT AND NAPOLEON. (1803-15.)
- FOOTNOTES:
- XXXII.
- SWITZERLAND UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF 1815-48.
- FOOTNOTES:
- XXXIII.
- UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF 1848.
- FOOTNOTES:
- XXXIV.
- INDUSTRY, COMMERCE, RAILWAYS, EDUCATION THE "RIGHT OF ASYLUM."
- Imports.
- Exports.
- The End.
- FOOTNOTES:
- INDEX.
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