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The Laboratory of Progress: Switzerland in the 19th Century tells the improbable story of how a small, backward, mountainous agricultural country with almost no raw materials became an industrial powerhouse, a hub of innovation, a touristic mecca and a pioneer in transportation – all in the course of a single century. That a tiny landlocked country should become a dominant steamship builder for the rest of the world; that a country that had never seen a cotton plant should become the world’s second-largest textile producer; that a country with hardly any level terrain should come to boast the world’s most highly developed railway network; and that a country whose main export was impove...
'Democratization' is a concept often used in academic book titles, yet not many of them deal with the initial breakthrough of democratization. This research companion applies a comparative approach to analyzing debates in a number of countries. It discusses the politics, concepts and histories involved in European democratization as a complex of changes that has altered the conditions of political action and debate in the continent for the past two centuries.
Das Buch Prader Hausgeschichte(n): die alten Häuser und Familien, basiert auf ausgedehnten Recherchen zur Baugeschichte der Häuser und zu den Stammbäumen der Familien Bircher, Christoffel, Clement, Gerber, Jenny, Lorenz, Lys. Die zwei Dokumentarbände enthalten: - Die ausführlichen Beschreibungen der einzelnen Häuser und ihrer Baugeschichte - Die genealogischen Daten zu den Hausbewohnern und ihrer Familien - Listen der benutzten Urkunden und Dokumente - Bilder und Fotografien (Kontaktabzug, Kleinformat) - Stammbaumauszüge
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