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“Switzerland will continue to have a far more complex and striking history than most outsiders realize, and one most unlikely to follow a single simple trajectory. Indeed, because of its very particularity, Swiss history cannot serve as a model for others – anymore than can Swiss politics – but it remains fascinating and worth studying both for itself and because it offers a better understanding of the full range of possibilities that European polities have produced.”
― Clive H. Church, A Concise History of Switzerland

“Claims to distinctiveness and claims to continuity have thus themselves been a conservative constant, and one that has deeply influenced historians’ descriptions of Switzerland through the centuries.”
― Clive H. Church, A Concise History of Switzerland