APPENZELL

äˈpəntsĕl, canton, NE Switzerland. A rural and sparsely populated region, it is mainly a meadowland dotted with small farms. Appenzell retains many ancient customs and has been famous for centuries as a textile and embroidery center. It was ruled after the 11th cent. by the abbots of St. Gall, against whom it revolted in 1403. In 1411, Appenzell allied itself with the Swiss Confederation, which had helped defeat the abbots. It became a Swiss canton in 1513, and in 1597 it was split into two independent half cantons. Ausser-Rhoden (1993 pop. 53,400), 94 sq mi (243 sq km), with its capital at Herisau, accepted the Reformation; Inner-Rhoden (1993 pop. 14,500), 67 sq mi (174 sq km), with its capital at the town of Appenzell (1993 pop. 5,400), remained Catholic.

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books on: Appenzell  - 205 results

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Why Movements Succeed or Fail: Opportunity, Culture, and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage
Book by Lee Ann Banaszak; Princeton University Press, 1996
Subjects: Women--Suffrage--Switzerland--History, Women--Suffrage--United States--History
...ring of people, people from outside Appenzell, who screamed out so loud that the members...activists also noted this tendency for Appenzell men to feel that their autonomy was being...cantons. For example, an attempt by Appenzell women to get the national government...
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Professions and the French State, 1700-1900
Book by Gerald L. Geison; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984
Subjects: Professions--France--History, Science And State--France--History
...one-half of the old canton of Appenzell, which had been divided in 1597 for religious reasons. Both Glarus and Appenzell Ausser-Rhoden were small, mountainous...contrast, the tiny half-canton of Appenzell Inner-Rhoden was almost exclusively...
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A Short History of Switzerland
Book by E. Bonjour, H. S. Offler, G. R. Potter; Clarendon Press, 1952
Subjects: Switzerland--History
...garb, Rudolf von Werdenberg, helped Appenzell. Even so, at Stoss, in June 1405...a little territory. When the men of Appenzell and their allies reached Bregenz in January...whatever the theory, in practice the men of Appenzell had obtained independence, and this...
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Europe since 1945: An Encyclopedia - Vol. 2
Book by Bernard A. Cook; Garland, 2001
Subjects: Europe--Civilization--1945- Encyclopedias, Europe--History--1945---Encyclopedias, European Cooperation--Encyclopedias, Political Leadership--Europe--Encyclopedias, Politicians--Europe--Encyclopedias, Statesmen--Europe--Encyclopedias
...finally achieved local suffrage in the holdout half-cantons of Outer Appenzell and Inner Appenzell in 1989 and 1990, respectively. On April 29 the men of Inner Appenzell, as they had done twice before since 1971, registered their clear majority...
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Switzerland
Book by Doré Ogrizek, J. G. Rufenacht; Whittlesey House, 1949
Subjects: Switzerland--Description And Travel--Guide-Books
...the varied countryside of the canton of Appenzell. The round trip from St. Gall, via Herisau to Appenzell and back via Gais, is one of the nicest...who wish to spend a whole day in the Appenzell countryside should take the mountain...
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Decentralized Taxation and the Size of Government: Evidence from Swiss State and Local Governments
Journal article by Lars P. Feld, Gebhard Kirchgassner, Christoph A. Schaltegger; Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 77, 2010
Subjects: Local government--Management, Local government--United States, Public sector--Management
...1 68 Luzern 119.0 64 Neuchatel 137.1 63 Appenzell i.Rh. 105.6 61 Appenzell a.Rh. 121.7 61 <br/ Financially weak cantons...2 Bern 37.3 Luzern 41.6 Neuchatel 36.2 Appenzell i.Rh. 42.6 Appenzell a.Rh. 39.8 <br...
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Democratic Deficit in the ACT: Is the Citizen Initiated Referendum a Solution?
Journal article by Lisa Hill; Australian Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 38, 2003
...until 1971 that the same proposal was finally passed. One half-canton, Appenzell Ausserrhoden (AR) did not give women the vote until 1989; the other, Appenzell Innerrhoden (AI), had to be forced by the Swiss federal court to give women...
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Of MohrenkÖpfe and Japanesen: Swiss Images of the Foreign
Journal article by Regina Bendix; Journal of Folklore Research, Vol. 30, 1993
Subjects: Folklore
...for example, the Bernese are characterized as extremely slow, the people of Zurich as excessively fast, the people of Appenzell as diminutive in size and witty, the people of Thurgau (or alternately Schaffhausen) as having a tendency to steal, etc...
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The Urner Tellenspiel of 1512: Strategies of Early Political Drama
Journal article by Martin W. Walsh; Comparative Drama, Vol. 34, 2000
Subjects: Drama--Criticism, interpretation, etc., German literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Political plays--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Urner Tellspiel (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...had been handily disposed of in a single year of fighting, 1499. The incorporations of Basel and Schaffhausen (1501) and Appenzell (1513), events which bracket the composition of our play, had completed the Eidgenossenschaft of thirteen confederated...
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Healing a Collective: a Psychopolitical Action Project
Journal article by Margret Rueffler; The Journal of Psychohistory, Vol. 33, 2005
...begin, in January 1996, a one-year professional training in social work. T. will begin a cheese-making training in Appenzell, Switzerland with the idea of eventually producing this cheese in Georgia. Nu. received his American visa and will begin...
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Democracy in Europe
Magazine article; American Conservative, Vol. 10, March 2011
Subjects: Democracy, Dictators, Europe, European Union, Foreign policy, Muslims
...herself only with foreign policy and some regulation of things that dont readily come to mind. (One exception: in 1970, Appenzell voted not to give women the franchise, a move that was reversed by Berne. I, for one, called it an outrage.) The Swiss...
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Ascent from Ideology
Magazine article by Robert P. Kraynak; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, December 2001
Subjects: ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN: THE ASCENT FROM IDEOLOGY (Book)--Reviews, Books--Reviews
...government. To defend this somewhat surprising claim, Mahoney looks to Solzhenitsyns personal observations of Switzerlands Appenzell region, whose citizens impressed him with their old-fashioned character and devotion to local liberty. Further support...
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Travel Aid Service
Magazine article by Alfreda B. Dembsey, Frank Watson; PSA Journal, Vol. 60, August 1994
Subjects: Photographic Society of America--Services, Travel photography--Services
...excellent photograph of the Matterhorn, a view which I have never been able to get; another sent large color prints of the Appenzell areas; another sent a letter stating that my information on parts of Switzerland caused him to stay longer than he expected...
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T S Eliot Wept Here, While Thomas Mann Wrote a Novel about a Man with a Hacking Cough. A Good Place to Die?
Magazine article by Frances Stonor Saunders; New Statesman, Vol. 132, April 28, 2003
Subjects: Antisemitism--History, Antisemitism--International aspects, Antisemitism--Political aspects, Switzerland--Economic aspects, Switzerland--History, Switzerland--Political aspects, Switzerland--Social aspects
...it was not until the 1980s that women were granted the right to vote in cantonal elections. In the small eastern canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden, where votes are still counted from a show of hands at the Landsgemeinde, or open-air meeting, women were...
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Costa Vece: Kunstmuseum Solothurn
Magazine article by Eva Scharrer; Artforum International, Vol. 45, November 2006
Subjects: Installations (Art)--Criticism and interpretation, Installations (Art)--Exhibitions, Vece, Costa--Criticism and interpretation, Vece, Costa--Exhibitions
...all works 2006) is made out of darkish gray wooden planks, recalling the covered bridges seen everywhere in the canton of Appenzell, where he spent his childhood. The romantic image here turns into a narrow, claustrophobic structure that, for an outsider...
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newspaper articles on: Appenzell  - 18 results

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Living Travel: Painting a 'Pitcher' of a Healthy Lifestyle; There Is More to Beer Than Bubbles and Alcohol, as Alastair Gilmour Discovered When He Headed to Switzerland for a Beer Massage
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), October 14, 2006
...centre at the hotel Hof Weissbad, near Appenzell in Switzerland. And the mind, I think...fits neatly with the philosophy of the Appenzell health resort - a quest to soothe body...of the neighbouring Brauerei Locher in Appenzell not only brewed the first organic beer...
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Painting a 'Pitcher' of a Healthy Lifestyle
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), October 14, 2006
Subjects: Beer
...centre at the hotel Hof Weissbad, near Appenzell in Switzerland. And the mind, I think...fits neatly with the philosophy of the Appenzell health resort ( a quest to soothe body...of the neighbouring Brauerei Locher in Appenzell not only brewed the first organic beer...
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Not Just a Drink ( Get the Pitcher?
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), June 16, 2006
...centre at the hotel Hof Weissbad, near Appenzell in Switzerland. "And the mind," says...of the neighbouring Brauerei Locher in Appenzell not only brewed the first organic beer...smoking the distinctive, traditional Appenzell pipe. This got the brewery into hot...
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Steak and Ale on the Menu
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), October 9, 2009
Subjects: Organic farming
...a version of this culinary oddity in Appenzell in the North of Switzerland as a by...each fermentation." Hof Weissbad in Appenzell (so popular it has year-round, 97pc...completely cleared up." Earlier this year in Appenzell, naked ramblers were warned to keep...
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HEALTH WATCH: World&s Finest Medicine Man
Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), September 6, 2005
...developing remedies himself. By the mid 1930s he had moved to the Appenzell region of Switzerland where he would be allowed to practise...the fertile gardens at Teufen, a village not far from the Appenzell region of eastern Switzerland he began to cultivate a range...
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encyclopedia articles on: Appenzell  - 5 results

 
 
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Appenzell
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
APPENZELL a p ntsel, canton, NE Switzerland...meadowland dotted with small farms. Appenzell retains many ancient customs and has...whom it revolted in 1403. In 1411, Appenzell allied itself with the Swiss Confederation...
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Switzerland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Ausser-Rhoden and Inner-Rhoden form Appenzell . German, French, and Italian are Switzerlands...widely. In Unterwalden, Glarus, and Appenzell the entire electorate legislates directly...Solothurn, Basel, Schaffhausen, and Appenzell had raised the number of cantons to 13...
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Saint Gall , Canton, Switzerland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Rhine River in the east, it surrounds the entire canton of Appenzell. The south is fairly mountainous, and the north is mainly...which the town grew. The abbots of St. Gall, who also ruled Appenzell , became princes of the Holy Roman Empire in the early 13th...
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Rhoden, Ausser and Inner
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
RHODEN, AUSSER AND INNER see Appenzell , Switzerland. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Herisau
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HERISAU ha rizou, town (1990 pop. 15,624), capital of Appenzell Ausser-Rhoden half canton, NE Switzerland. Cotton textiles, paper, wood, blown glass, machinery, and other metal goods...


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