Exiles From European Revolutions : : Refugees in Mid-Victorian England / / ed. by Sabine Freitag, Rudolf Muhs.

• MitwirkendeR: Aprile, Sylvie,; Bensimon, Fabrice,; Diethe, Carol,; Fahrmeir, Andreas,; Frank, Tibor,; Freitag, Sabine,; Isabella, Maurizio,; Lattek, Christine,; Levine, Bruce,; Marchlewicz, Krzysztof,; Pfaff, Ivan,; Pilbeam, Pamela,; Porter, Bernard,; Prothero, Iorwerth,; Reiss, Ansgar,; Saville, John,
• HerausgeberIn: Freitag, Sabine,; Muhs, Rudolf,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Studies on exile in the 19th century tend to be restricted to national histories. This volume is the first to offer a broader view by looking at French, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Czech and German political refugees who fled to England after the European revolutions of 1848/49. The contributors exa...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• 1 Introduction
• I. Englishmen and Refugees
• 2 1848 – Britain and Europe
• 3 British Exceptionalism in Perspective
• 4 The Asylum of Nations
• II. Emigré Communities
• 5 Italian Exiles and British Politics before and after 1848
• 6 The French Exiles and the British
• 7 Continuities and Innovations
• 8 Lajos Kossuth and the Hungarian Exiles in London
• 9 The Politics of Czech Liberation in Britain after 1849
• III. Emigré Politics
• 10 Voices of Exile
• 11 ‘The Begging Bowl of Revolution’
• 12 German Socialism in London after 1849
• 13 Chartists and Political Refugees
• 14 Immigrants and Refugees
• IV. Women in Exile
• 15 Keeping busy in the Waiting-Room
• 16 Jeanne Deroin: French Feminist and Socialist in Exile
• V. Legacy
• 17 Home Alone?
• Index