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Acknowledgments 9
Introduction: The Dutch and Swiss Republics Compared André Holenstein Thomas Maissen Maarten Prak 11
Part I Republican Structures
1 'The League of the Discordant Members' or How the Old Swiss Confederation Operated and How it Managed to Survive for so Long Andreas Würgler 29
2 Challenges for the Republic: Coordination and Loyalty in the Dutch Republic Maarten Prak 51
Part II Republican Religions
3 Bridging the Gap: Confessionalisation in Switzerland Francisca Loetz 75
4 Was the Dutch Republic a Calvinist Community? The State, the Confessions and Culture in the Early Modern Netherlands Willem Frijhoff 99
Part III Republican Ideas
5 Inventing the Sovereign Republic: Imperial Structures, French Challenges, Dutch Models and the Early Modern Swiss Confederation Thomas Maissen 125
6 Turning Swiss? Discord in the Dutch Debates Martin van Gelderen 151
7 The Content, Form and Function of Swiss and Dutch Images of History Olaf Mörke 171
Part IV Republican Art
8 Republican Art? Dutch and Swiss Art and Art-Production Compared Michael North 193
9 The Dassier Workshop in Geneva and the Netherlands: Two Calvinist Republics Expressed in Medallic Form, 1695-1748 William Eisler 211
Part V Republican Economies
10 Exporting Mercenaries, Money and Mennonites: A Swiss Diplomatic Mission to The Hague, 1710-1715 Stefan Altorfer-Ong 237
11 Republican Risks: Commerce and Agriculture in the Dutch Republic Ida Nijenhuis 259
12 Republican Futures: The Image of Holland in 18th-Century Swiss Reform Discourse Béla Kapossy 279
Part VI Improving the Republic
13 Radical Elements and Attempted Revolutions in theLate-18th-Century Republics Marc Lerner 301
14 Debating the Republic: A Conference Report Daniel Schläppi 321
Bibliography of Pre-Modern Swiss-Dutch Relations Simon Hari 331
About the Authors 353
Index 355
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Johnny Palermo
reviewed The Republican Alternative: The Netherlands and Switzerland Compared on March 13, 2018 The Republican Alternative
I've had this on the back of the toilet for a few months--great bathroom reading, I dare say. Sections are broken into small, two to seven page chunks, making this a great bit of porcelain prose.
But, on a lighter note, Roberts does the unthinkable: he condenses three thousand years of European history into a single, accurate, informative tome with a wonderfully readable prose. As a primer for European history, this book is at the top of the class and, moreover, for those who are more intimately familiar with history, it is in no way a tedious read. Neither too surfactory nor too pedantic, Roberts provides a compelling and accessible book on an important part of world history.
And it really is good toilet-reading material. Though, that should not cast aspersions on its merits.
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