I. WAGING PEACE: WILLIAM BROSS LLOYD'S USES OF THE SWISS EXPERIENCE

Authors

Christian D. Nokkentved

Keywords

William Bross Lloyd, waging peace, Swiss experience

Abstract

For many Americans, scholar and lay alike, western Europe consists of the Big Three, England, Germany, and France. Monographs in English about the history and culture of Europe typjcally pertain only to them. On occasion another region or nation is included, but not unless "important" events took place there. Italy, for instance, only "existed" during the Renaissance, the Risorgimento, and again under Mussolini. Smaller countries like Switzerland, Portugal, or Denmark often do not get mentioned at all even when part of "world historical" phenomena. George Huppert exemplifies this approach in his newest book, After the Black Death: A Social History of Europe when he writes, What of the territorial limits of Western Europe? On that question I have allowed myself some latitude. Instead of settling for a purely geographical border line [certainly commendable], such as the Elbe River valley, I have, in effect, focused on the most densely populated and the most thoroughly urbanized regions: the Paris Basin, southeastern England, northern Italy (he discusses the Renaissance], western Germany. One might almost say the "western" is used in this book as a social rather than a geographical expression, so that Italy appears more western by far than Portugal.1

Recommended Citation

Nokkentved, Christian D. (1989) "I. WAGING PEACE: WILLIAM BROSS LLOYD'S USES OF THE SWISS EXPERIENCE," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol. 25: No. 2, Article 3.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_review/vol25/iss2/3