By Jonathan Steinberg
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Publish yr note: First released in 1976
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Why Switzerland?, first released in 1976, deals a distinct research of the buildings that make Switzerland paintings and gives a quick, concise "working model" for the customer or pupil. Linking an research of the microeconomy to the most important beneficial properties in politics, heritage, faith and language, it indicates how a "bottom up" society has survived in an international of "top down" states.
For this new edition Jonathan Steinberg has thoroughly revised and prolonged his textual content, and a couple of strange and tasty illustrations were further.
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S'tni/if« — '•« i nrue Senaten •Aanmnt untnrrn . Outrith Ormtm 2 6" Plate 4 Map of Canton Ticino, 1812 14 Why Switzerland? Nationalism was not the only force which might have torn Switzerland apart. Religious conflict was another. The Confederation has often seemed a compact with the devil. Writing in 1525 Ulrich Zwingli, the great Protestant reformer, had no doubt of it: CI prefer a league united by faith to one in which the members putrefy. ' 8 Religious warfare divided the Swiss again and again between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, and religious divisions inflamed the Jura crisis in the 1970s.
The emergence of this new infantry and the expenses caused by innovations such as artillery priced the hire and fitting out of troops out of the small princely market. Only important princes with adequate sources of revenue could compete. The Swiss, whose strength had been diversity, now began to suffer from it. The 30 Why Switzfirland? thirteen cantons had different economic and international interests, and their only central institution was a Diet, the Tagsatzung, which was merely a formal assembly of ambassadors with no power to coerce its member states.
No important myths are ever entirely without real content. The Alps really were important in early Swiss history. By the twelfth History 17 Century the evidence suggests the existence of a distinctive 'Alpine society' characterised by what Guy Marchai calls 'the herdsman culture'. These herdsmen of the Alpine slopes lived an archaic, independent, quasi-aristocratic form of life. They were free of feudal servitudes and, as a sign of their liberty, these mountain peasants bore arms and demanded 'honour' even from nobles.