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The Death of Communal Liberty : A History of Freedom in a Swiss Mountain Canton /

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...

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Autor principal: Barber, Benjamin R., 1939-2017 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1974.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Acknowledgments ; A Note on Names and Translation ; PART I: INTRODUCTION ; CHAPTER I. Political Theory and Swiss Practice; PART II: THE HISTORY OF RAETIA; CHAPTER II. Raetia to 1524-The Formative Years; CHAPTER III. Raetia to 1800 -- The Republic of the Three Leagues; PART III: OLD FREE RAETIA AND THE EMERGENCE OF FREEDOM; CHAPTER IV. The Alpine Environment; CHAPTER V. Feudalism and Communality; CHAPTER VI. Surviving Independence; CHAPTER VII. Direct Democracy in the Communes; PART IV: MODERN GRAUBUNDEN AND THE CONSERVATION OF FREEDOM. 
505 0 |a CHAPTER VIII. Communal Autonomy and Swiss Federalism CHAPTER IX. The Confrontation with Modernity; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX. 
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