Joseph Jung

The Laboratory of Progress

Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century, Volume 2

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Produktbeschreibung

This book tells the improbable story of how a small, backward, mountainous agricultural country with almost no raw materials became an industrial powerhouse, a hub of innovation, a touristic mecca and a pioneer in transportation - all in the course of a single century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9781032152271
• ISBN-10: 1032152273
• Artikelnr.: 64103888

Autorenporträt

Joseph Jung is Professor Emeritus at the University of Fribourg and the author of bestselling biographies of the preeminent Swiss politician Alfred Escher and his daughter Lydia Welti-Escher, among many other works. He has received numerous awards for his pioneering research into 19th-century Swiss economic and cultural history.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Lifelines: Interconnecting Systems 1.1. Starting Points and Foundations
1.2. The Interlinking of Transport Systems 1.3. The Development of Railway
Tourism 1.4. The Swiss Railway Project 1.5. The Success Story of the
Railway 2. Switzerland Unbound: Intrepid Progress 2.1. Get to Know This
Pioneering People 2.2. Highlights: From the Helvetic Republic to the
Industrialised Welfare State 2.3. The Social Profile of the Pioneers 2.4.
The Nation Needs Topographers 2.5. Engineers: Switzerland as Construction
Site 2.6. Stonemasons and Reinforced Concrete: The Mechanisation of the
Building Trade 2.7. Watches: An Early Swiss Trademark 2.8. Thanks to
Cottage Industry, Switzerland Becomes the Second Largest Textile Exporter
in the World 2.9. An Abundance of Water: A Rattling Loom on a Rushing Brook
2.10. Heinrich Kunz and the Issue of Social Welfare 2.11. Escher Wyss: From
the Textile to the Engineering Industry 2.12. The Engineering Industry:
Honegger's Looms 2.13. Rieter and Sulzer: The Heavyweights from Winterthur
2.14. Sig Neuhausen: Carriages, Weapons and Milk Cartons 2.15. Educational
Journeys to England 2.16. The Brown Dynasty: British Know-How Gains
Currency 2.17. The Transformation: From Water to Electricity 2.18. Flushing
Away Basel's Chemical Waste 2.19. Steamboats and Chocolates 2.20. Tickets
to the Mountaintops 2.21. Dairy Products: From Mountain to Factory 2.22.
The Mechanisation of Agriculture 2.23. Commerce: From Generation to
Generation 2.24. Doctor Alfred Escher of Zurich: A La Bonne Heure, This Is
a Man Comme Il En Faut Pour la Suisse 2.25. Life Insurance: Johann Conrad
Widmer 2.26. Transport Insurance, Fire Insurance and Reinsurance: Moritz
Grossman 2.27. Disaster in Winterthur: Swiss Lloyd and the Financial Bust
2.28. A Breakneck Pace: Hotel Pioneers and Their Empires 2.29. Swiss
Industry in the 19th Century: Dynamics and Structure 3. Headlines: From
Developing Country to Laboratory of Progress 3.1. Almost Passed By 3.2.
Peace and Threats to Peace 3.3. War on the Doorstep 3.4. Mass Emigration
and Italian Migrant Workers 3.5. Synchronisation and Punctuality 3.6. The
Changing Faces of Cities 3.7. In Search of the Secret to Quality 3.8.
Turning Obstacles into Advantages 3.9. The 1848 Constitution: A Stroke of
Genius 3.10. Transport Is the Key to Almost Everything 3.11. Politics and
Business, Hand in Hand 3.12. Who Pulls the Strings Behind the Scenes? 3.13.
The Ties of Federalism 3.14. The Hour of Big Gambles 3.15. Neutrality and
Good Offices 3.16. On the Way to Direct Democracy 3.17. The Swiss Miracle