A Very Civil War: The Swiss Sonderbund War of 1847.(Brief Article)

The Historian | June 22, 1994| | Copyright

Joachim Remak's title, A Very Civil War, may explain why his is the first work in English on the Sonderbund War; small wars with few casualties attract less attention. Yet, it might be argued that these are exactly the wars we should study, where violence is restrained so successfully that, as Remak puts it, "once the fighting was over, so was the war" (168). The Sonderbund War is often treated as a prelude to the revolutions of 1848. Remak focuses our attention on the war as a war. However, since the civility of this war emerged from peculiarly Swiss characteristics, the book ...

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