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My study of the Swiss Peasants' War of 1653 has received four reviews in the United States. I am grateful to Hermann Rebel for supplying another, most unusual review toCentral European History. It is unusual not only in length but also in judgment. Where the other reviews wrote positively about the book, Rebel rejects it completely.If I read Rebel correctly, his criticism covers four main points. First, he criticizes the book's theoretical point of view, alleging that the call for a "return to historical events in social history" means a return to "histoire événementielle" and would lead to "high antiquarianism." Second, Rebel criticizes my methodological inferences from this theoretical point: systematic attention to the cultural dimension of human action; the expansion of social history's traditional methods of analysis and perspectives on time (longue durée, temps sociale) to include cultural and anthropological insights (from, i.e., Victor Turner, Mary Douglas, and Clifford Geertz); and the introduction of a "slow-motion" perspective.

Une large partie de ce qui s'est passé avant et après 1989 était effectivement imprévisible et surprenant, nouveau et en rupture — nous rappelant que l'histoire est aussi faite de surgissements et d'innovations, de hasards et de contingence, de liberté et de spontanéité. La véritable question qui se pose dès lors est celle de savoir comment prendre en compte à sa juste mesure la dimension d'imprévu, de surprise et de hasard dans l'histoire, comment repenser cette dernière dans ses dimensions d'ouverture et de contingence, comment modifier en conséquence nos modes de présentation et d'écriture du passé.

Frontmatter -- Vorbemerkung -- Inhalt -- Einleitung -- Deutsche Agrargeschichte in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts -- Agrargeschichte der frühen Neuzeit in geschlechtergeschichtlicher Perspektive. Anmerkungen zu einem Forschungsdesiderat -- Rechtsfindung zwischen Machtbeziehungen, Konfliktregelung und Friedenssicherung. Historische Kriminalitätsforschung und Agrargeschichte in der Frühen Neuzeit -- Neue Forschungen und Perspektiven zur Geschichte der ländlichen Gesellschaft in der Schweiz (1500-1800) -- Probleme der Erforschung der ländlichen Gesellschaft des Mittelalters -- Beharrung und Wandel "als Argument". Bauern in der Agrargesellschaft des 18. Jahrhunderts -- Ländliche Gesellschaft und Agrarwirtschaft im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Transformationsprozesse als Thema der Agrargeschichte -- Abstracts -- Sachregister

FUNDING: This study was funded by A.Vogel Bioforce AG, Roggwil, Switzerland. NS was co-funded by the School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition (University of Aberdeen) and A.Vogel Bioforce AG. The Rowett Institute (University of Aberdeen) receives financial support from the Scottish Government Rural and Environmental Sciences and Analytical Services (RESAS). ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: We thank all the volunteers which contributed their time and efforts into enrolling and completing the trial. Further, we are grateful for the staff at the Human Nutrition Unit and Analytical Services at the Rowett Institute for supporting the research and assisting when needed. We would like to thank Brennan Martin at the Center for Genome Enabled Biology of Medicine for his assistance in DNA sequencing ; Peer reviewed ; Publisher PDF

This work was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF project grants 200021-155917, 200021-159736, and 200021-172774). D.L. acknowledges funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No 701647. J.R.L.M. is grateful to the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research, Molecular Ultrafast Science and Technology (NCCR MUST). ; Two-dimensional magnetic systems with continuous spin degrees of freedom exhibit a rich spectrum of thermal behaviour due to the strong competition between fluctuations and correlations. When such systems incorporate coupling via the anisotropic dipolar interaction, a discrete symmetry emerges, which can be spontaneously broken leading to a low-temperature ordered phase. However, the experimental realisation of such two-dimensional spin systems in crystalline materials is difficult since the dipolar coupling is usually much weaker than the exchange interaction. Here we realise two-dimensional magnetostatically coupled XY spin systems with nanoscale thermally active magnetic discs placed on square lattices. Using low-energy muon-spin relaxation and soft X-ray scattering, we observe correlated dynamics at the critical temperature and the emergence of static long-range order at low temperatures, which is compatible with theoretical predictions for dipolar-coupled XY spin systems. Furthermore, by modifying the sample design, we demonstrate the possibility to tune the collective magnetic behaviour in thermally active artificial spin systems with continuous degrees of freedom. ; Publisher PDF ; Peer reviewed