The republican alternative
Subtitle: the Netherlands and Switzerland compared
By: André Holenstein, Thomas Maissen, Maarten Prak (eds.).
Contributors: Holenstein, André.; Maissen, Thomas, 1962-; Prak, Maarten Roy, 1955-
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Amsterdam]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9789089640055
Subjects: Representative government and representation -- Netherlands; Representative government and representation -- Switzerland; Republicanism -- Netherlands -- History; Republicanism -- Switzerland -- History; Netherlands -- Politics and government; Switzerland -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-351) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the Dutch and Swiss republics compared / André Holenstein, Thomas Maissen, and Maarten Prak; title: 'The league of the discordant members, ' or, How the old Swiss confederation operated and how it managed to survive for so long / Andreas Würgler; title: Challenges for the republic : coordination and loyalty in the Dutch republic / Maarten Prak; title: Bridging the gap : confessionalisation in Switzerland / Francisca Loetz; title: Was the Dutch republic a Calvinist community? The state, the confessions and culture in the early modern Netherlands / Willem Frijhoff; title: Inventing the sovereign republic : imperial structures, French challenges, Dutch models and the early modern Swiss confederation / Thomas Maissen; title: Turning Swiss? Discord in the Dutch debates / Martin van Gelderen; title: The content, form and function of Swiss and Dutch images of history / Olaf Mörke; title: Republican art? Dutch and Swiss art and art-production compared / Michael North; title: The Dassier workshop in Geneva and the Netherlands : two Calvinist republics expressed in medallic form, 1695-1748 / William Eisler; title: Exporting mercenaries, money and Mennonites : a Swiss diplomatic mission to The Hague, 1710-1715 / Stefan Altorfer-Ong; title: Republican risks : commerce and agriculture in the Dutch republic / Ida Nijenhuis; title: Republican futures : the image of Holland in 18th-century Swiss reform discourse / Béla Kapossy; title: Radical elements and attempted revolutions in the late-18th-century republics / Marc Lerner; title: Debating the republic : a conference report / Daniel Schläppi.