Why Switzerland ? - 3rd revised edition

A revised and completely updated edition of Jonathan Steinberg's classic account of Switzerland's unique political and economic system.

List of contents

1. Why Switzerland?; 2. History; 3. Politics; 4. Language; 5. Wealth; 6. Religion; 7. Why Italian Switzerland?; 8. Switzerland and the European Union; 9. The crisis of Swiss identity; Notes; Index.

About the author

Jonathan Steinberg is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History and former Chair of the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania, and an Emeritus Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He gave the biennial Leslie Stephen Lecture on 25 November 1999 at Senate House, University of Cambridge, with the title 'Leslie Stephen and Derivative Immortality'. He was the principal author of The Deutsche Bank and its Gold Transactions during the Second World War (1999). He is also the author of Yesterday's Deterrent: Tirpitz and the Birth of the German Battle Fleet (1965), All or Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust, 1941–43 (1990) and Bismarck: A Life (2011), which was shortlisted for both the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (2011) and the Duff Cooper Prize (2012).

Summary

This is a revised and completely updated edition of Jonathan Steinberg's classic account of Switzerland's unique political and economic system. This new edition addresses the twin challenges posed by globalisation and Swiss relations with the EU, and whether Switzerland does offer a viable, alternative model of development.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Steinberg
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.2015
• EAN: 9780521883078
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88307-8
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 238 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Print On Demand; Print on Demand
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book; Kulturgeschichte, Schweiz; Politik, Zeitgeschichte, Wirtschaftspolitik, Swissness, HISTORY / Europe / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Politics and government, Regional / International studies