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The Story of Switzerland

by Lina Hug and Richard Stead

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Table
  3. 3I — The Lake Dwellers
  4. 4II — The Helvetians
  5. 5III — Helvetia Under the Romans
  6. 6IV — The Ancestors of the Swiss Nation
  7. 7V — The Carolingians — Charlemagne
  8. 8VI — The Kingdom of Burgundy; the Duchy of Swabia; and the German E…
  9. 9VII — Burgundy and Swabia Under the German Emperors
  10. 10VIII — The Reign of the House of Zaeringen
  11. 11IX — The Houses of Kyburg, Savoy, and Habsburg
  12. 12X — The Confederation, or Eidgenossenschaft
  13. 13XI — The Battle of Morgarten
  14. 14XII — The League of the Eight States
  15. 15XIII — Zurich an Example of a Swiss Town in the Middle Ages
  16. 16XIV — Bern Crushes the Nobility: Great Victory of Laupen, 1339
  17. 17XV — The Battles of Sempach, 1386, and Naefels, 1388
  18. 18XVI — How Switzerland Came to Have Subject Lands
  19. 19XVII — War Between Zurich and Schwyz
  20. 20XVIII — Burgundian Wars
  21. 21XIX — Meeting at Stanz, 1481, &c.
  22. 22XX — The League of the Thirteen Cantons Completed
  23. 23XXI — The Great Councils; the Landsgemeinde and Tagsatzung, or Diet…
  24. 24XXII — The Reformation in German Switzerland
  25. 25XXIII — The Reformation in West Switzerland
  26. 26XXIV — Geneva and Calvin
  27. 27XXV — The Catholic Reaction
  28. 28XXVI — The Aristocratic Period
  29. 29XXVII — Political Matters in the Eighteenth Century
  30. 30XXVIII — Switzerland and the Renaissance. Influence of Voltaire and…
  31. 31XXXI — The French Revolution and Switzerland
  32. 32XXX — The “One and Undivided Helvetic Republic”
  33. 33XXXI — The Mediation Act and Napoleon
  34. 34XXXII — Switzerland Under the Constitution of 1815-48
  35. 35XXXIII — Under the Constitution of 1848
  36. 36XXXIV — Industry, Commerce, Railways, Education the “Right of Asylum”
  37. 37The Story of the Nations

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