Guide to the Materials for American History in Swiss and Austrian Archives (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Guide to the Materials for American History in Swiss and Austrian Archives Thurgau, and Ticino had been dependencies of groups of the old cantons. Vaud had before 1798 been subject to Bern. Of the three cantons added in 1814, Valais had long been an independent republic, having relations more or less close with the Swiss Confederacy, Neuchatel, an independent princi pality till 1814, was from 1707 to 1857 under the sovereignty of the king of Prussia as prince, Geneva had been till 1798 a separate republic with a famous history, then for fifteen years a part of France. The order in which the cantons are treated in this volume is that followed in Official publications of the Swiss federal government, except that the cantons Of German, Italian, and French speech are treated in separate groups, the archives of the French cantons having been described by another hand than those of the German and the Italian. The Official order gives precedence to Ziirich, Bern, and Luzern, and presents the other cantons in their chrono logical order, Fribourg appearing next after Zug, and Ticino, Vaud, Valais, Neuchatel, and Geneva after Thurgau. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.