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.

Acknowledgements

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Notes on contributors

vi

1 Sabine Freitag

Introduction

1

(18)

I. Englishmen and Refugees

2 John Saville

1848 - Britain and Europe

19

(13)

3 Andreas Fahrmeir

British Exceptionalism in Perspective: Political Asylum in Continental Europe

32

(11)

4 Bernard Porter

The Asylum of Nations: Britain and the Refugees of 1848

43

(16)

II. Emigré Communities

5 Maurizio Isabella

Italian Exiles and British Politics before and after 1848

59

(29)

6 Fabrice Bensinion

The French Exiles and the British

88

(15)

7 Krzysztof Marchlewicz

Continuities and Innovations: Polish Emigration after 1849

103

(18)

8 Tibor Frank

Lajos Kossuth and the Hungarian Exiles in London

121

(14)

9 Ivan Pfaff

The Politics of Czech Liberation in Britain after 1849

135

(14)

III. Emigré Politics

10 Sylvie Aprile

Voices of Exile: French Newspapers in England

149

(15)

11 Sabine Freitag

'The Begging Bowl of Revolution': the Fund-raising Tours of German and Hungarian Exiles to North America, 1851-1852

164

(23)

12 Christine Lattek

German Socialism in London after 1849: The Communist League of August Willich and Karl Schapper

187

(22)

13 Iorwerth Prothero

Chartists and Political Refugees

209

(25)

14 Bruce Levine

Immigrants and Refugees: Who were the Real Forty-Eighters in the United States?

234

(19)

IV. Women in Exile

15 Carol Diethe

Keeping Busy in the Waiting-room: German Women Writers in London following the 1848 Revolution

253

(22)

16 Pamela Pilbeam

Jeanne Derom: French Feminist and Socialist in Exile

275

(22)

V. Legacy

17 Ansgar Reiss

Home Alone? Reflections on Political Exiles Returning to their Native Countries

297

(22)

Index

319

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