SAHS Review

Contents - 2018

VOLUME 54

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ISSUE 1 (February)

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Johnson, Maren, "There was Silence after Dawn: The Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff and Its Disappearance from History."

Swiss American Historical Society Review. Feb2018, Vol. 54 Issue 1, p1-12. 

[Article] 

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Page, Dwight, "Madame de Staël and her Magnificent Salon at the Swiss Castle of Coppet."

Swiss American Historical Society Review. Feb2018, Vol. 54 Issue 1, p13-29. 

[Article]  

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Champion, Brian, "Bank Shot: Swiss Banks and Swiss National Character in Daniel Silva’s Mossad Spy Novel The English Assassin."

Swiss American Historical Society Review. Feb2018, Vol. 54 Issue 1, p30-49. 

[Article]
Abstract: A literary criticism of the novel “The English Assassin" by Daniel Silva is presented. It outlines the characters and explores their symbolic significance. It examines the links between Swiss complicity with the Nazis and multigenerational Jewish victimhood. Swiss nationalism and its covert banking and financial industries are also discussed. An overview of the story is also given.

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"Fifty-fourth SAHS Annual Meeting Reports."

Swiss American Historical Society Review. Feb2018, Vol. 54 Issue 1, p50-63. 

[Minutes, Reports and Other Business] 

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ISSUE 2 (June)

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Herman, William E. and Axel Fair-Schulz, "The Psychological Odyssey of 1909: Carl Gustav Jung's Pivotal Encounter with Sigmund Freud during their Journey to America."

Swiss American Historical Society Review. Jun2018, Vol. 54 Issue 2, p1-26. 

[Article] 

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Herman, Bryan K., "The Poet Jan Rainis during Swiss Exile, 1906-1920: Internationalism, Nationalism, and the Meaning of 'A Free Latvia in a Free Russia.'"

Swiss American Historical Society Review. Jun2018, Vol. 54 Issue 2, p27-42. 

[Article]

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Lindberg, James T., "Mapping the State: Cartographic Representations of Switzerland, 1530-1865."

Swiss American Historical Society Review. Jun2018, Vol. 54 Issue 2, p43-59. 

[Article] 

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Ahmad, C. Naseer, "The William Tell Award and its Recipients."

Swiss American Historical Society Review. Jun2018, Vol. 54 Issue 2, p61-80. 

[Article] 

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Menrath, Manuel, Mission Sitting Bull: The Cultural Conquest of the Sioux and their Varied Response. 

[Book Review by S. Marianne Burkhard] 

Swiss American Historical Society Review. Jun2018, Vol. 54 Issue 2, p81-84. 

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Rooney, Padraig, The Gilded Chalet: Off-Piste in Literary Switzerland. 

[Book Review by Christopher Cumo] 

Swiss American Historical Society Review. Jun 2018, Vol. 54 Issue 2, p85-87. 

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ISSUE 3 (November)

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Winkler, Albert, "The Germans and Swiss at the Battle of the Little Bighorn 1876."

Swiss American Historical Society Review. Nov2018, Vol. 54 Issue 3, p1-103. 

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Abstract: The article examines the Germans and the Swiss who participated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn and assess their motives for joining the cavalry, and to appraise their experience in battle. It mentions historians have carefully examined many aspects of the battle and role of the various nationalities of soldiers in the Seventh Cavalry. It also mentions physical examinations of the new recruits for the U.S. military.

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Pierroz, Philippe, Des Valaisans à Placerville. Haut lieu de la ruée vers l'or.

[Book Review by Leo Schelbert] 

Swiss American Historical Society Review. Nov2018, Vol. 54 Issue 3, p104-106.

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"New Approaches to Swiss Colonial & Global History Workshop."

Swiss American Historical Society Review. Nov2018, Vol. 54 Issue 3, p107-109. 

[Announcement]

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