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© in This Web Service Cambridge University Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19444-0 - A Concise History of Switzerland Clive H. Church and Randolph C. Head Index More information INDEX Items which also figure in the Glossary are marked in bold Aar, river, 46, 47 transit, 257, 261, 265 Aarau, 135, 147, 149, 157 valleys, 36, 71 Peace of, 97, 104 Alsace, 25, 52, 56, 67, 195, 196 Aargau, 47, 50, 51, 96, 119 American War of Independence, 123 canton of, 135, 144 Anabaptism, 5, 73, 82, 88, 90 as a condominium, 56, 70, 76, 97, Ancien Régime, 6, 7, 104, 111, 115, 116, 105, 285 123, 130, 132, 189 liberalism in, 149 decline of, 124, 130, 135, 150 seizure of, 43, 46 model, 142 Ab Yberg, Alois, 151, 155 nature of, 104 Action for an Independent and Neutral support for, 137, 140, 144, 146, Switzerland, 251, 259 149, 155 active service, 223, 225 anti-Semitism, 39, 171, 202, 208, Ador, Gustave, 196, 203 210, 218 agriculture, 12, 13, 148, 175, 229 Appenzell, 45, 51, 99 growth of, 116, 143, 156 canton of, 54, 67, 77, 83 problems of, 137, 183, 206, 230, 247 economy of, 142 structure of, 122, 167 hills of, 44 AHV/AVS, 221 significance of, 203 AIDS, 249 war, 43, 45 Alabama, 168 Appenzell, Inner Rhoden, 106, 149, alliances, 5, 33, 40, 46, 59, 90 259, 267 as a constituent of Switzerland, 4, 11, Appenzell, Outer Rhoden, 108 33, 53 Arbedo, 285 members of, 19, 29, 30 aristocracy, 4, 5, 17, 28, 30, 33, 37, 46, peace, 22, 23, 25, 27, 35, 49 58, 60, 71 Allies, 8, 193, 196, 199, 213, 219, 221 army, 255 pressures on Switzerland, 222 Arth, 95 victories of, 219, 221 Articles of War, 110 Alps, 2, 4, 11, 12, 13, 23, 25, 53 Associates, 67, 74, 75, 87, 94, 101 central, 19, 21 asylum, 245, 258 as a fortress, 212, 215, 235 policy, 243, 279 as a symbol, 186 seekers, 264, 279 310 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19444-0 - A Concise History of Switzerland Clive H. Church and Randolph C. Head Index More information Index 311 Aubert, Pierre, 243, 250 role in the Confederacy, 82, 86, Austria, 3, 12, 129, 256 117, 121 AVS, 225 changes in, 105 Axis, 212, 216, 224 influential nature of, 88, 97, 126 military aspects of, 95, Bachman, Albert, 237 109, 125 Bachmann, General von, 145 rulers of, 50, 93, 95, 106, 108, 120, Baden 127, 130, 144, 174 Articles of, 155, 156 Bernese expansion, 5, 44, 54, 57, 67, city of, 46, 105 86, 87 Grand Duchy of (Germany), 167 causes of, 47, 49, 64 Balthasar, Franz Urs, 114 changes in, 74, 144, 145 banks, 190, 204, 222, 230, 276 nature of, 30, 47 abandoned accounts in, 223, 263 Bernese Oberland, 137 cantonal, 171, 175 Bernoulli, Daniel and Johan II, 112 controls on, 247 BGB, 202, 209, 216, 233 evolution of, 176 Bicocca, 78 failures of, 206 Biel/Bienne, 75, 208 growth of, 98, 101 bilateral negotiations, 265, 268, 272 impact of, 166, 176 Bircher, Eugen, 202, 217 savings, 156, 176 Bismarck, 187 secrecy, 245, 268, 272, 275, 276 Black Death, 4, 22, 27, 29, 35, 39, 43 banquets, 125 Blocher Basle, 67, 100, 149 Christoph, 247, 251, 259, 261, 264, 270 bishop of, 90, 126, 174 Eduard, 197, 203 canton of, 54, 83, 127 Bodmer, Johann Jakob, 113 city of, 13, 15, 16, 28, 30, 32, 52, 88, Bolshevism, 199, 205 96, 101 Bourla-Papey, 139 civil war within, 151 Bregenz, 45 Council of, 68, 120 Brelaz, Daniel, 241 Peace of, 63, 129 bribery, 30, 57, 66, 68, 93 Prince Bishopric of, 16, 109, 126, 145 Brown Boveri, 176, 229 reform in, 127, 133 Brun, Rudolf, 28, 284 reunification of, 239, 267 Brune, General Guillaume, 133 rural districts, 94 Bubna, General von, 144 Treaty of, 20 Bullinger, Heinrich, 82, 88 Basle City, half-canton of, 151 Bund ob dem See, 45, 285 Basle Country, half-canton of, 151, 170 Bundesbarone, 165, 170 Befreiungssage, 6, 42, 52, 70, 114, 124, Bundeshaus, 186, 215 186, 237, 259 Burgdorf, 31 Bergier Bürgerblock, 183, 188 Jean-François, 263, 264 Burgundy, 5, 17, 22, 34, 43, 56, 67 Report, 263, 295 Berlin Wall, 254, 255 Calmy-Rey, Micheline, 271, 279 Berne Calvin, Jean, 5, 73, 81, 82, 88 canton of, 48, 52, 56, 74, 76, 94 cantons, 6, 64, 76, 123 city of, 4, 16, 23, 27, 34, 40, 46, 58 as actors, 47, 66 internal politics, 34, 111, 166, 238 attitudes to each other, 147 in the Revolutionary era, 137 autonomy of, 86, 166, 200 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19444-0 - A Concise History of Switzerland Clive H. Church and Randolph C. Head Index More information 312 Index cantons (cont.) 1712, 74 as a collective force, 267 1798-1803, 132 conservative, 144 1814, 144 constitutions of, 140, 149, 156, 157, 1847, 10, 155, 160 170, 238 French, 90 change in, 133, 267 Spanish, 210 nature of, 77, 150 Sri Lankan, 245 sources of, 28, 145 climate, 98 French-speaking, 261 Confederacy German-speaking, 172, 239, 266, 268 political system of, 53 limitations on, 145 COCOM, 234 as a source of sovereignty, 145, 150 Codex Manesse, 38 status of, 136, 172 coinage, 94, 166 Capo d’Istria, 144 Cold War, 9, 236, 255 Catholic, 244 Colonels’ affair, 198 Association, 159 COMCO, 271 cantons, 74, 85, 90, 95, 96, 97, 105, communes, 4, 23, 30, 44, 46 106, 110, 118, 130, 154, 178 mergers of, 267 Church, 79, 148, 155, 175 status of, 18 conservatives, 7, 8, 133, 137, 155, urban, 38, 46 156, 166, 177, 188 communities, 1, 2, 4, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, Laager, 233 34, 75 population, 231 Como, 16 censorship, 113, 130, 146, 149, 150, Conclusum, 146, 149 197, 217 concordance, see consensus Central Powers, 197, 199 condominiums, 48, 56, 74, 76, 91, 92, Chablais, 124 93, 95, 96, 97, 105 challenge, the, 150, 170, 172, 174, 181 Confederacy (to 1798), 18, 33, 42, 46, Cham, 167 63, 74, 186 Chateau of Chillon, 133 context of, 44, 103 Chaudet, Paul, 236 decline of, 6, 115, 119, 123, 128, 130, cheese, 74, 98, 101, 116, 122, 156 131, 132 chemicals, 176, 183, 249 evolution of, 6, 16, 44, 46, 73, 76, 87, Chenaux, Pierre-Nicolas, 121, 123 104, 128 Choiseul, Duc de, 118 internal structures of, 46, 49, 64, 67, Christian Catholic Church, 174, 178 76, 96, 105 Christian Democrats, 233, 251, 269, mediating role of, 91 272, 273 members of, 5, 20, 22, 32, 40, 44, 54, Christianity, 16, 22, 35, 43, 47, 72, 283 58, 67 Chur nature of, 20, 34, 39, 48, 53, 57, 71, Bishop of, 16, 46, 61, 63 91, 97 city of, 15 political system of, 11, 22, 39, 53, Churchill, Winston, 223, 225 63, 75 civil defence, 236, 237 strength of, 1, 4, 20, 35, 42, 44, 53, civil guards, 202 61, 130 civil service, 206, 235 stresses within, 50, 52, 53, 54, 57, 61, civil war, 6, 25, 96 78, 85, 91, 105, 124 sixteenth century, 5 territory of, 5, 59, 76 1656, 74, 96 see also Eidgenossenschaft © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19444-0 - A Concise History of Switzerland Clive H. Church and Randolph C. Head Index More information Index 313 Confederation (since 1803), 2, 4, 151, Däniker, Gustav, 216, 217 157, 172, 267 Danube, 12 activities of, 180, 182 Das Boot ist Voll, 244 anniversaries of, 259, 266 Davel, Abraham, 108, 133 changing nature of, 154, 155 Defensionale of Wil, 93, 128, 130, 289 early, 4 democracy, 7, 9, 18, 37, 102, 114, 234 powers of, 202 Democratic Movement (1860s), use of the term, 145, 160 7, 162, 168 Congress of Vienna, 91, 144 Diamant, 255 Conjunctural Articles, 231, 243 Diet, 66, 84, 94, 96, 97, 105, 128, conscientious objection, 246 130, 139 consensus, 233, 254, 255, 265, 272, 1815-48, 146, 149, 150, 151, 152, 274, 281 157, 159, 160 Consensus Tigurninus, 288 emergence of, 44, 48 conservatism, 7, 166, 183, 189, 203, powers of, 105, 124, 128, 144 208, 237 working of, 64, 75 early, 112, 140 direct democracy, 150, 162, 170, post-1890, 162, 182, 188, 192, 195, 175, 179, 203, 227, 240, 264, 199, 200, 203, 204, 205, 211 265, 281 Constance Dolder, Johann Rudolf, 139 city of, 28, 34, 54, 61, 93 Dreifuss, Ruth, 261 Council of, 47, 68 Droz, Numa, 179 Lake Constance, 12, 40, 45 Druey, Henri, 157, 160, 165, 166 Constant, Benjamin, 147 Dübi, Ernst, 211 constitutions, 34, 115, 135 Dubs, Jakob, 172, 174 medieval, 48, 60 Dufour, Guillaume-Henri, 147, 154, of 1799, 135, 138 159, 168 of 1803, 139, 140 Dunant, Henri, 168 of 1815, 132, 144, 145, 159, 160 Duttweiler, Gottlieb, 205, 206, 208 of 1848, 162 dynasties, 20, 22, 25, 39, 42, 50, 64 of 1874, 7, 174, 181, 241, 261 of 1999, 267, 276, 278 economic depressions, 102, 115, 204 revision of, 208, 237, 267 of the nineteenth century, 8, 147, 156, consumer 162, 175, 176, 183 associations, 230 between 1914 and 1945, 204, 205 society, 230, 233, 241 post 1945, 9, 240, 242, 254, 262, 274 contention, 132, 147, 150, 154, 155, economic growth, 13, 74, 111, 148, 166, 161, 233, 281 183, 229 Continental System, 142 eighteenth century, 101, 122 Council of Europe, 225, 235, 251 nineteenth century, 6, 142, 175, 183 Council of States, 164, 267, 273, twentieth century, 204, 209, 229, 278, 280 245, 249 Council of Trent, 81 education, 43, 147, 150, 166, 177, 188, Credit Suisse, 166, 274 229, 230, 231, 271 crime, 231, 262, 269, 271, 278 higher, 112, 230 customs primary, 182 free zones, 204 Eidgenossenschaft, 11, 31 internal, 147 see also Confederacy levies, 147, 166 Einsiedeln, 81, 284 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19444-0 - A Concise History of Switzerland Clive H.
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