The Story of Switzerland (The Story of the Nations) (Tourist Edition)

xxiv, 430 pp. Red boards with gilt titles, page ridges marbled. Maps, including fold-out, engravings throughout. CONTENTS: Preface; Table of Cantons; Table Showing Names, Areas, and Populations of Cantons; The Lake Dwellers; The Helvetians; Helvetia Under the Romans; The Ancestors of the Swiss Nation; The Carolingians--Charlemagne; The Kingdom of Burgundy; The Duchy of Swabia; and the German Empire; Burgundy and Swabia Under the German Emperors; The Reign of the House of Zaeringen; The Houses of Kyburg, Savoy, and Habsburg; The Confederation, or Eidgenossenschaft; The Battle of Morgarten; The League of the Eight States; Zurich an Example of a Swiss Town in the Middle Ages; Bern Crushes the Nobility: Great Victory of Laupen; The Battles of Sepmach and Naefels; How Switzerland Came to Have Subject Lands; War Between Zurich and Schwyz; Burgundian Wars; Meeting at Stanz, &c.; The League of the Thirteen Cantons Completed; The Great Councils, Landsgemeinde, and Diet, &c.; The Reformation in German Switzerland; The Reformation in West Switzerland; Geneva and Calvin; The Catholic Reaction; The Aristocratic Period; Political Matters in the Eighteenth Century; Switzerland and the Renaissance: Influence of Voltaire and Rousseau; The Frech Revolution and Switzerland; The "One and Undivided Helvetic Republic"; The Mediation Act and Napoleon; Switzerland Under the Constitution of 1815-48; Under the Constitution of 1848; Industry, Commerce, Railways, Education. The "Right of Asylum"; Genealogical Tables; Index.