Barber The Death of Communal Liberty

A History of Freedom in a Swiss Mountain Canton
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6717-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Barber, Benjamin R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Acknowledgments, pg. ix
A Note on Names and Translation, pg. xi
Chapter I. Political Theory and Swiss Practice, pg. 3
Chapter 11. Raetia to 1524—The Formative Years, pg. 21
Chapter III. Raetia To 1800—The Republic of the Three Leagues, pg. 48
Chapter IV. The Alpine Environment, pg. 79
Chapter V. Feudalism and Communality, pg. 107
Chapter VI. Surviving Independence, pg. 140
Chapter VII. Direct Democracy in the Communes, pg. 170
Chapter VIII. Communal Autonomy and Swiss Federalism, pg. 207
Chapter IX. The Confrontation with Modernity, pg. 237
Bibliography, pg. 275
Index, pg. 293