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Föderale Staatsbildung und gesellschaftliche Integration in der Republik der Drei Bünde
German, Hannes Siegrist, Jon Mathieu, 2025
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1. Chronos Föderale Staatsbildung und gesellschaftliche Integration in der Republik der Drei Bünde
The volume addresses the history of the constitution, political culture, and social integration in the early modern Republic of the Three Leagues and its northern Italian territories (Veltlin, Chiavenna, Bormio) within the context of the history of Switzerland, Italy, and Europe. The starting point for the historical case studies, comparative overviews, and research essays is the Federal Charter of the Three Leagues from 1524. The contributions, which are designed to be interwoven and multiperspective, analyze power strategies, violence, legal frameworks, rituals of governance, as well as institutional and organizational models in the processes of state formation and in the protracted conflicts over political order in pre-national state Europe. They explore pathways of development, types and variants of state and societal forms, and discuss the meaning, use, and benefits associated with historical myths, cultures of remembrance, and sites of memory. The volume presents the results of a scientific conference that took place in June 2024 in Maloja, initiated by Swiss, Italian, and German historians as part of the 500-year celebrations of the Canton of Graubünden.
2. Chronos «… von olympischen Höhen lachen»
They could not have been more different in terms of their origins and social positions: the well-off, educated poet Carl Spitteler and the freelance writer Carl Albert Loosli, who grew up and lived in impoverished conditions. Yet they understood each other excellently, debating from 1908 to 1924 about philosophy and poetics, education and schools, politics, and various contemporary issues. Both agreed that spirit and power represented significant opposites. In the years immediately before and during World War I, Spitteler and Loosli found their views on the contrast between the "man of power/perpetrator" and the solitary, autonomously acting thinker ominously confirmed. It is not politicians, but rather two cultural figures, Spitteler and Ferdinand Hodler, who find the right words and symbols to help Switzerland break free from its paralysis and show it new paths. Loosli was one of Spitteler's most important conversation partners and played a significant, yet previously underestimated role in his life and work. This is evidenced by the extent of the surviving correspondence, which is now being made accessible to a wider audience.
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«… von olympischen Höhen lachen»
German, Carl Albert Loosli, Carl Spitteler, 2025
3. Chronos 'Im Kampf gegen die Feinde des Kindeswohls'
The specialized book "In the Fight Against the Enemies of Child Welfare" by Frauke Sassnick Spohn offers a comprehensive analysis of the social challenges that influenced child welfare in Winterthur between 1900 and 1939. It highlights the role of poor relief, schools, and foster care during this period and examines how societal and political conditions shaped the lives of children and families. Through a detailed historical perspective, it provides a deeper understanding of the development of social services and their impact on child welfare. The book is aimed at professionals, students, and anyone interested in the history of social work and childhood in the early 20th century. It is written in German and offers a solid foundation for further research in this field.
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'Im Kampf gegen die Feinde des Kindeswohls'
German, Frauke Sassnick Spohn, 2025
4. Chronos Integration at the End?
"Integration at the End?" is a reading book about the course of European unification and its impact on Switzerland. How did the federal government and the public respond to the various challenges? Seventy contributions reflect the successes and setbacks of a development that has rarely been straightforward to this day. How did European integration begin after World War II? Why is only Churchill's speech from September 1946 remembered, rather than the European Rütli rally? How has the integration process affected neutral Switzerland? Why did it demand the sealing off of the connecting corridors between the OEEC and NATO headquarters? Which part of Africa was included in the EEC's territory at its founding? Why did France refuse to host the EFTA in Paris? How did it happen that the Federal Council submitted an application for EU membership almost overnight in 1992?.
5. Chronos Interventions in life
Eugenic thought and action patterns were strongly present in Switzerland at the beginning of the 20th century. Until well into the 1930s, Switzerland played a pioneering role in the implementation of eugenically motivated measures compared to other countries. Current research on eugenics mainly focuses on psychiatry. The relationship between welfare authorities and eugenics has hardly been examined so far, even though the interplay of welfare, medicine, and psychiatry intensified the power dynamics on the side of professionals and the dependency on the side of those affected. The core of this book consists of case analyses. These are case stories in which professionals from welfare and psychiatry intervened in the lives of individuals. They tell of people who fell under the control or treatment of experts during existential crises.
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Interventions in life
German, BeatriceZiegler, GiselaHauss, KarinCagnazzo, MischaGallati, 2012
6. Chronos Pharmaceutical research in the 20th century
Since its inception in the late 19th century, the Swiss pharmaceutical industry has relied on academically trained professionals and university research results. The universities, in turn, benefited early on from industrial services and monetary donations. The author traces the over hundred-year balancing act of pharmaceutical research between academia and industry, contributing to the understanding of knowledge production in the 20th century, which is also significant for understanding the current situation. Agreements on study plans and the filling of vacant professorships, industry-funded university laboratories, and the pursuit of academic recognition by industrial researchers are described in a practical manner and interpreted in a socio-historical context. The combination of a microhistorical approach and a long-term perspective opens up new insights.
7. Chronos Publications of the TOB. Studies and articles on research / Aspects des relations financières f
The "Publications of the UEK. Studies and Contributions to Research" is a specialized book that deals with the topics of history and archaeology as well as politics and state. Written by Marc Lpez Perrenoud, this work offers a well-founded analysis and valuable insights into financial relationships and their impact on society. The paperback cover ensures an appealing and practical handling, while the publication, consisting of 210 pages, is written in French. With a height of 17 mm and a width of 153 mm, the book is handy and suitable for both students and professionals who wish to engage with the complex interrelations in these fields. The first edition, published in 2002, represents a significant resource for research and contributes to a deeper understanding of the topics addressed.
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Publications of the TOB. Studies and articles on research / Aspects des relations financières f
French, German, Marc Loper Perrenoud, Marc Perrenoud Rodrigo Lopez, 2002
8. Chronos Visions, popular agitation, frauds
Who likes to pay taxes? The Swiss are particularly famous for their passionate aversion to giving the state what it demands for its functioning. People curse, vote no, change their residence, or evade taxes. The Swiss have never been known as loyal taxpayers. Their drive for freedom and instinctive distrust of those in power have always been too strong. Nevertheless, starting in the 19th century, a state financing model based on direct taxation of income and wealth began to take hold in the stubborn Alpine republic, enjoying high acceptance among the taxable population. This book tells the story of the long journey to that point, filled with political battles, popular uprisings, and tax scandals, but also with foresight, visions, and compromises. It aims to explore the state of mind of the Swiss taxpayer.
9. Chronos Mediumship
Media history in the traditional sense raises several issues: it always presupposes which media are to be the subject of historical writing. Moreover, it narrates this history along a teleological line of significant innovations. The present volume, resulting from the long-term work of a National Research Focus, takes a different approach. As a new kind of media history, it includes essays that discuss significant constellations from the medieval period to modern times. These essays reveal how media was handled and conceptualized in specific places, under certain conditions, and within particular text and image ensembles.
10. Chronos The becoming of man in the Word
The writings of Mikhail M. Bakhtin attracted the attention of literary and cultural scholars in the last third of the 20th century to such an extent that he can be regarded as one of the most important reference authors of postmodernism. Julia Kristeva and Jan Assmann base their terminological foundational decisions on him, and since 1994, there has even been a center at the University of Sheffield dedicated exclusively to the study of Bakhtin and his circle. Given the powerful impact of his work, the question arises regarding the philosophical historical references of his thinking. Wolfram Eilenberger primarily reconstructs the influences that stemmed from German philosophy, particularly from Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms. Against this backdrop, Bakhtin's theory of language and culture is examined in various directions.
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