Renewed interest in Swiss history has sought to overcome the old stereotypes of peasant liberty and republican exceptionalism. The heroic age of the Confederati

Much of early-modern Europe was built up gradually by a series of leagues and alliances, and this volume seeks to demonstrate that the Swiss Confederation was o

A description of the course of the Protestant Reformation in the city of Geneva from the 16th to the 18th centuries.

A major new biography of Huldrych Zwingli--the warrior preacher who shaped the early Reformation Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) was the most significant early ref

This book argues that long-ignored, non-western political systems from the distant and more recent past can provide critical insights into improving global gove