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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Faust, Albert B. |
| Title, Analytic | Swiss Emigration to the American Colonies in the Eighteenth Century |
| Journal Title | The American Historical Review |
| Date of Publication | Oct. 1916 |
| Volume ID | 22 |
| Issue ID | 1 |
| Location in Work | 21-44 |
| View Online | http://www.jstor.org/view/00028762/di951144/95p0341i/0 |
| Abstract | [T]here is something distinctive about the emigration from Switzerland and that greater area of eighteenth-century emigration, the Palatinate and the upper Rhine country, the story of which has not been told. This is a record of hardship and obstruction at home, of barriers placed in the way of the emigrant by governments, of social ostracism, and of deprivation of all his rights and privileges. The home governments feared the loss of their people by emigration as much as they might by war or pestilence, and employed all means in their power to prevent it. For a study of this subject the materials found in the Swiss archives seem to be richer than those that have survived in the archives of the Palatinate and southern Germany, where in the eighteenth century the same policy prevailed of restricting, and if possible prohibiting, emigration. Conditions in Switzerland, therefore, may be assumed to illustrate also the situation for the German emigrant of the eighteenth century. |
| Notes | Faust was bron April 20, 1870 in Baltimore, Maryland, and died February 8, 1951, in Ithaca, New York. After attending Scheib's Zion Schoon he studied at Johns Hopkins University, where he received his Ph.D. He taught German at Johns Hopkins, Wesleyan University in Connecticut, the University of Wisconsin, and Cornell University, where he became a full professor. He retired in 1938. |
| Call Number | MKI P2007-20 |
| MKI Terms | Swiss Americans/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ Immigrants, Swiss/ 18th century/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US) |