A circle of friends : : Romanian revolutionaries and political exile, 1840-1859 / / Angela Jianu.

• Superior document: Balkan studies library, v. 3
• Author: Jianu, Angela.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Balkan studies library ; v. 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 pages)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Angela Jianu explores the lives and activities of a group of Romanian revolutionaries exiled in Paris, London and the Middle East in the aftermath of the insurrections of 1848. Drawing largely on diaries, memoirs and private correspondence, A Circle of Friends is a social history of political exile, presenting the personal life dramas of the protagonists within the wider context of the European post-revolutionary turmoil of the 1850's. Exile and political repression allied this group not only to their Hungarian and Polish peers, but also to French republicans, English radicals and Italian freedom-fighters. Their story reveals the existence of transnational networks of left-wing, radical and republican movements in mid-nineteenth-century Europe against the background of nation-building projects in East-Central Europe.

Table of Contents

pt. 1. Students and revolutionaries, 1844-1848 -- Jules Michelet, "Madame Rosetti," 1855 -- 1837-1841 : early diplomatic ventures -- 1844-1848 : the College de France : sociability and protest -- Jules Michelet and "les Franco-Roumains" : Dumitru Bratianu -- 1848 in Paris and Europe -- 1848-1849 : Bucharest between St. Petersburg and Constantinople -- A Transylvanian interlude -- 1848 : epilogue -- pt. 2. Exile, 1849-1855 -- 1849, Paris : early Days in exile -- 1849 : Dumitru Bratianu and the English "philo-Romanians" -- Hungarians and Romanians in 1849-1850 -- April 1849 : the Transylvanian debacle -- July-August 1849 -- September 1849 -- December 1849 -- 1850 : "la Roumanie" -- April-September 1850 -- 1851 : London : Mazzini's European Democratic Committee -- 1851 : London-Bucharest-Paris -- 1852 : Nantes-Paris-Bucharest -- 1853 : Nantes-Paris-London -- 1853 : Paris : "Madame Rosetti" -- 1853-1854 : Paris : Ion Bratianu and the "Hippodrome Affair" -- 1853 : Paris-Gallipoli-Constantinople : Rosetti's war -- January-February 1854 : London -- January 1854 : Serbia -- The Crimean War -- The Daily news and the Romanian principalities -- The end of the war and the peace conference -- pt. 3. The return of the exiles, 1856-1857 -- A republican funeral -- The ad-hoc assemblies and the European commissioners -- July 1856 -- October : the Brighton meeting -- 1857 -- The elections -- 1858 : the Congress of Paris and the union of the principalities -- Epilogue: After exile -- The uses of the press -- The "people question" -- The uses of exile -- Liberalism in Romania -- Conclusions -- Dramatis personae.

pt. 1. Students and revolutionaries, 1844-1848 -- pt. 2. Exile, 1849-1855 -- pt. 3. The return of the exiles, 1856-1857.