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- Title
Einsiedeln on the Ohio.
- Authors
Nauer, Heinz
- Abstract
The article presents an essay on the overseas migrations of people from Einsiedeln, Switzerland to U.S. between 1850 and 1950 owing to economic crisis and Swiss Catholicism. The article discusses the history of migratory processes in Switzerland and the term saltwater curtain. The article also refers to the centrality of socio-cultural factors leading to the migrations. The article stresses on how people from Einsiedeln and their descendants are settled in Louisville, Ohio.
- Subjects
EINSIEDELN (Switzerland); LOUISVILLE (Ohio); UNITED States emigration &; immigration; SWISS economy; 19TH century Catholic Church history; SOCIOCULTURAL factors; HISTORY
- Publication
Swiss American Historical Society Review, 2016, Vol 52, Issue 3, p19
- ISSN
0883-4814
- Publication type
Essay