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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER.   PAGE.


BOOK III.
THE CONFEDERATION AT THE HEIGHT OF ITS MILITARY POWER.
I. Appenzell and St. Gallen 193
II. The Valais and Graubünden 202
III. The Conquest of Val Leventina and Aargau 208
IV. The First Civil War 213
V. The War with Charles of Burgundy 219
VI. The Covenant of Stans 232
VII. The War against the Empire 236
VIII. Switzerland and the Balance of Power in Europe 239
IX. The Thirteen Swiss States and the Thirteen American Colonies 243
BOOK IV.
THE PERIOD OF THE REFORMATION.
I. The Rise of the Reformation in Switzerland 251
II. Zwingli in Zürich 259
III. The Growth of the Reformation 264
IV. Calvin in Geneva 271
V. Decay of National Life 278
VI. The Growth of Aristocracy and the Peaseants’ War 281
BOOK V.
THE MODERN CONFEDERATION.
I. Signs of National Regeneration 289
II. The Helvetic Revolution 295
III. The Helvetic Republic 300
IV. Switzerland the Battle-field of Europe 308
V. Napoleon’s Act of Mediation 313
VI. The Period of Reactionary Restoration 319
VII. Democratic Reforms in the Cantons 326
VIII. The War of the Sonderbund and the Constitution of 1848 331
IX. Recent Constitutional Chances in the Cantons 338
X. The Constitutions of the Swiss Confederation and of the United States Compared 346
XI. The Neutrality of Switzerland 354
XII. The Rise of the Swiss Republic 364