LINA HUG AND
RICHARD STEAD
THE STORY OF THE NATIONS 12MO, ILLUSTRATED. PER VOL., USD1.50 THE EARLIER VOLUMES ARE
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
TABLE SHOWING NAMES (GERMAN AND FRENCH), AREAS, AND POPULATIONS
THE STORY OF SWITZERLAND.
I. THE LAKE DWELLERS.
II. THE HELVETIANS.
III. HELVETIA UNDER THE ROMANS. SILVER COIN, VERCINGETORIX.
IV. THE ANCESTORS OF THE SWISS NATION. THE ALAMANNI; BURGUNDIANS; FRANKS; MEROVINGIANS.
V. THE CAROLINGIANS CHARLEMAGNE.
VI. THE KINGDOM OF BURGUNDY; THE DUCHY OF SWABIA; AND THE GERMAN EMPIRE. (843-1100.)
VII. BURGUNDY AND SWABIA UNDER THE GERMAN EMPERORS.
VIII. THE REIGN OF THE HOUSE OF ZAERINGEN. (1050-1218.)
IX. THE HOUSES OF KYBURG, SAVOY, AND HABSBURG. (1218-1273.)
X. THE CONFEDERATION, OR EIDGENOSSENSCHAFT. (1231-1291.)
XI. THE BATTLE OF MORGARTEN. -1315
XII. THE LEAGUE OF THE EIGHT STATES. (1332-68.)
XIII. ZURICH AN EXAMPLE OF A SWISS TOWN IN THE MIDDLE AGES. (853-1357.)
XIV. BERN CRUSHES THE NOBILITY: GREAT VICTORY OF LAUPEN, 1339.
XV. THE BATTLES OF SEMPACH, 1386, AND NAEFELS, 1388.
XVI. HOW SWITZERLAND CAME TO HAVE SUBJECT LANDS. (1400-1450.)
XVII. WAR BETWEEN ZURICH AND SCHWYZ. (1436-1450.)
XVIII. BURGUNDIAN WARS. (1474-1477.)
XIX. MEETING AT STANZ, 1481, and C.
XX. THE LEAGUE OF THE THIRTEEN CANTONS COMPLETED. -1513
XXI. THE GREAT COUNCILS; THE LANDSGEMEINDE AND TAGSATZUNG, OR DIET; LITERATURE IN THE HEROIC AGE.
XXII. THE REFORMATION IN GERMAN SWITZERLAND. (1484-1531.)
XXIII. THE REFORMATION IN WEST SWITZERLAND. (1530-1536.)
XXIV. GENEVA AND CALVIN. (1536-1564.)
XXV. THE CATHOLIC REACTION.
XXVI. THE ARISTOCRATIC PERIOD. (1600-1712.)
XXVII. POLITICAL MATTERS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
XXVIII. SWITZERLAND AND THE RENAISSANCE. INFLUENCE OF VOLTAIRE AND ROUSSEAU.
XXXI. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND SWITZERLAND. (1790-1798.)
XXX. THE "ONE AND UNDIVIDED HELVETIC REPUBLIC." (1798-1803.)
XXXI. THE MEDIATION ACT AND NAPOLEON. (1803-15.)
XXXII. SWITZERLAND UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF 1815-48.
XXXIII. UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF 1848.
XXXIV. INDUSTRY, COMMERCE, RAILWAYS, EDUCATION THE "RIGHT OF ASYLUM."
INDEX.
The Story of the Nations.
ANCIENT SWISS LAKE DWELLINGS, ZURICH LAKE. (From Design by Dr. F. Keller.) ANCIENT SWISS LAKE DWELLINGS, ZURICH LAKE. (From Design by Dr. F. Keller.)
The Story of the Nations
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