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The Death of Communal Liberty : A History of Freedom in a Swiss Mountain Canton
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ISBN: 0691618089 0691645124 0691021724 1400867177 9781400867172 9780691618081 9780691075549 Year: 2015 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Switzerland today is faced with a profound dilemma-its village life is dying, a casualty of the collision between communal norms and the need for national survival in an industrial, urbanizing world. Benjamin Barber traces the origins and evolution of communal liberty in the group of alpine villages that make up modern Canton Graubunden, and recreates their poignant thousand-year struggle to maintain this tradition in the face of a hostile environment, hierarchical feudal institutions, and European power polities.Originally published in 1974.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Early modern democracy in the Grisons : social order and political language in a Swiss mountain canton, 1470-1620
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ISBN: 0521470862 0521893798 0511523335 0511886209 Year: 1995 Volume: *42 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The Freestate of the Three Leagues in the Grisons, a rural confederation in the Swiss Alps, was one of the most unusual political entities in early modern Europe. In the sixteenth century, its inhabitants enjoyed popular sovereignty and remarkable local autonomy, and many of them insisted on political equality among citizens, and on political leaders' responsibilities to their communities. The author of this 1995 book uses pamphlets and political documents to trace the Freestate's evolution, focusing on its institutional structure and on the political language used by its inhabitants. This language included radical statements about 'democracy' and rule by the 'common man'. Even so, the Freestate participated in contemporary European political developments; but because it was different, it provides new perspectives on political ideas in sixteenth-century Europe. It represents a political culture distinct from both absolutism and later liberal ideas.


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Strukturen und Realitäten : Aufsätze zur Romanität Graubündens und Norditaliens
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ISBN: 3772020461 9783772020469 Year: 1993 Volume: 110 Publisher: Basel ; Tübingen Francke Verlag


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Jahrbuch ... der Historischen Gesellschaft von Graubünden.
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ISSN: 25043455 Year: 1995 Publisher: Chur [Switzerland] : Die Gesellschaft,

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Historische Gesellschaft von Graubünden --- Rätisches Museum Chur --- Archäologischer Dienst Graubünden --- Kantonale Denkmalpflege Graubünden --- Graubünden (Switzerland) --- Switzerland --- History --- Antiquities --- Graubünden (Switzerland : Canton). --- Graubünden (Switzerland). --- Rätisches Museum (Chur, Switzerland) --- Zvicra --- Confédération suisse --- Eidgenossenschaft (Swiss Confederation) --- Everlasting League --- Four Forest Cantons --- Helvetic Confederation --- Lega elvetica --- Schweiz --- Suisse --- Svizzera --- Helvetia --- Confédération de huit cantons --- Confederatio Helvetica --- Zwitserland --- Shveytsʻaria --- Suiza --- Vier Waldstätte --- Swiss Confederation --- Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft --- Shveĭt︠s︡arii︠a︡ --- Sŭwisŭ --- Shṿaits --- Schweizerische Eidtgenossenschaft --- Confederazione svizzera --- Swisserland --- Sviṭzaralaiṇḍa --- Grisons --- Bünden (Switzerland) --- Grigione (Switzerland) --- Drei Bünde (Switzerland) --- Grisons (Switzerland) --- Grischun (Switzerland) --- Tre Lighe (Switzerland) --- Tre Leghe (Switzerland) --- Canton des Grisons (Switzerland) --- Historisch-Antiquarische Gesellschaft von Graubünden (Switzerland) --- Confederaziun svizra --- Svizra --- CH (Switzerland) --- Sveitsi --- スイス --- Suisu --- Helvetic Republic --- Gotteshausbund (Switzerland) --- Antiquities. --- Archäologischer Dienst Graubünden. --- Historische Gesellschaft von Graubünden. --- Kantonale Denkmalpflege Graubünden. --- Rätisches Museum Chur. --- Switzerland.


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