Publications
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Maskierte Helden
(2019)
Reinheit als Differenz Identität und Alterität in Max Frischs frühem Erzählwerk
(2016)
Purity as Difference Identity and Alterity in Max Frisch`s early fiction
This study investigates the early fiction of Max Frisch, previously only margin-ally discussed, in particular his first novel, «Jürg Reinhart. ...
Die amerikanische Verheissung Schweizer Aussenpolitik im Wirtschaftskrieg 1917/18
(2016)
Abstract in English* The promise of America
Swiss foreign policy amidst the economic warfare of 1917-18
The book tells the dramatic history of the final two years of World War I, during which Switzerland was in between ...
Bewegte Topologien
(2023)
Banken im Sturm
(2021)
Literatur und Institutionen
(2023)
Angebliche Huren
(2023)
Staatlichkeit in der Schweiz Regieren und verwalten vor der neoliberalen Wende
(2016)
Governance and Public Administration in Switzerland Transformations before the Neoliberal Turn
How did the state, its administration and its tasks change within the second half of the 20th century? To answer this ...
Fremde Richter Die Rechtsprechung im Fürstentum Liechtenstein unter dem Einfluss schweizerischer und deutsch-österreichischer Richter 1938–1945
(2015)
Foreign judges The Influence of Swiss and German-Austrian judges upon jurisprudence in the principality of Liechtenstein, 1939-45
The principality of Liechtenstein has been a small country possessing limited resources. ...
Buchführung für die Ewigkeit
(2014)
Rainer Hugener Books of Life. Commemorating the Dead in Medieval Switzerland
How were religious practices of remembering the deceased connected to the admin-istration of landholdings and the writing of history in the ...
Lichtduschen Geschichte einer Gesundheitstechnik, 1890–1975
(2015)
Light showers History of a Health Technology, 1890-1960
In the interwar period, western health experts considered ultraviolet light a powerful means for stimulating the population. In Germany, the electrical industry ...
Die Erschliessung der dritten Dimension. Entstehung und Entwicklung der zivilen Luftfahrtinfrastruktur in der Schweiz, 1919–1990
(2015)
Developing the third dimension. The origins and evolution of civilian aviation infrastructure in Switzer-land, 1909-1990
Why is Switzerland’s biggest airport today located at Zurich-Kloten? What role has airplane noise ...
Schule der Gesellschaft: Wissensordnungen von Zürcher Unterrichtspraktiken zwischen 1771 und 1834
(2015)
“Schule der Gesellschaft” Knowledge systems in Zurich educational practices between 1771 and 1834
The great social and political revolutions of 1798 and 1831 fueled efforts at radical restructuring of education policy. ...
Diplomatie als Familiengeschäft. Die Casati als spanisch-mailändische Gesandte in Luzern und Chur (1660–1700)
(2015)
Diplomacy as a family business. The Casatis as Spanish-Milanese envoys in Lucerne and Chur (1660-1700)
The astonishing family career of the Casatis contradicts widespread impressions of early modern diplomacy. This ...
Gemeinsam wohnen
(2020)
Fabrikgesellschaft
(2021)
Unter Kriegsrecht
(2018)
Krisen, Kritik und Sexualnot Die «Nacherziehung» männlicher Jugendlicher in der Anstalt Aarburg (1893–1981)
(2016)
Crises, Criticism, and Sexual Deprivation The «Nacherziehung» (remedial upbringing) of male youth at the Aarburg facility, 1893-1981
The juvenile detention center Aarburg, founded in 1893, adhered superficially to an ...