Exiles from European Revolutions

by Flotsam of Revolution (1999 London, England); Muhs, Rudolf; Freitag, Sabine; German Historical Institute in London

• ISBN13: 9781571813305
• ISBN10: 1571813306
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

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 examine various aspects of their lives in exile such as their opportunities for political activities, the forms of political cooperation that existed between exiles from different European countries on the one hand and with organizations and politicians in England on the other and, finally, the attitude of the host country towards the refugees, and their perceptions of the country which had granted them asylum.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	v
Notes on contributors	vi
Introduction	1	(18)
Sabine Freitag
I. Englishmen and Refugees
1848 -- Britain and Europe	19	(13)
John Saville
British Exceptionalism in Perspective: Political Asylum in Continental Europe	32	(11)
Andreas Fahrmeir
The Asylum of Nations: Britain and the Refugees of 1848	43	(16)
Bernard Porter
II. Emigre Communities
Italian Exiles and British Politics before and after 1848	59	(29)
Maurizio Isabella
The French Exiles and the British	88	(15)
Fabrice Bensimon
Continuities and Innovations: Polish Emigration after 1849	103	(18)
Krzysztof Marchlewicz
Lajos Kossuth and the Hungarian Exiles in London	121	(14)
Tibor Frank
The Politics of Czech Liberation in Britain after 1849	135	(14)
Ivan Pfaff
III. Emigre Politics
Voices of Exile: French Newspapers in England	149	(15)
Sylvie Aprile
`The Begging Bowl of Revolution': the Fund-raising Tours of German and Hungarian Exiles to North America, 1851-1852	164	(23)
Sabine Freitag
German Socialism in London after 1849: The Communist League of August Willich and Karl Schapper	187	(22)
Christine Lattek
Chartists and Political Refugees	209	(25)
Iorwerth Prothero
Immigrants and Refugees: Who were the Real Forty-Eighters in the United States?	234	(19)
Bruce Levine
IV. Women in Exile
Keeping Busy in the Waiting-room: German Women Writers in London following the 1848 Revolution	253	(22)
Carol Diethe
Jeanne Deroin: French Feminist and Socialist in Exile	275	(22)
Pamela Pilbeam
V. Legacy
Home Alone? Reflections on Political Exiles Returning to their Native Countries	297	(22)
Ansgar Reiss
Index	319