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A normal Festschrift is a collection of hastily assembled articles linked only by the writers' affection for (or dependence on) the great scholar whose smiling face appears opposite the title page. Schweiz im Wandel. Studien zur neueren Gesellschaftsgeschichte. Festschrift fur Rudolf Braun zum 600. Geburtstag, ed. Sebastian Brandli, David Gugerli et al. (Basel/Frankfurt am Main: Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 1990; pp. 434. N.p.) differs in two ways from the type. There is no picture, no bibliography of the dedicatee and no index; on the other hand, it is a proper book united by a common commitment to social history, deeply influenced by Weberian sociology, and tied together by …