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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.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Chapter 1. Introduction
Sabine Freitag
PART I: ENGLISHMEN AND REFUGEES
Chapter 2. 1848 – Britain and Europe
John Saville
Chapter 3. British Exceptionalism in Perspective: Political Asylum in Continental Europe
Andreas Fahrmeir
Chapter 4. The Asylum of Nations: Britain and the Refugees of 1848
Bernard Porter
PART II: EMIGRÉ COMMUNITIES
Chapter 5. Italian Exiles and British Politics before and after 1848
Maurizio Isabella
Chapter 6. The French Exiles and the British
Fabrice Bensimon
Chapter 7. Continuities and Innovations: Polish Emigration after 1849
Krzysztof Marchlewicz
Chapter 8. Lajos Kossuth and the Hungarian Exiles in London
Tibor Frank
Chapter 9. The Politics of Czech Liberation in Britain after 1849
Ivan Pfaff
PART III: EMIGRÉ POLITICS
Chapter 10. Voices of Exile: French Newspapers in England
Sylvie Aprile
Chapter 11. ‘The Begging Bowl of Revolution’: the Fund-raising Tours of German and Hungarian Exiles to North America, 1851–1852
Sabine Freitag
Chapter 12. German Socialism in London after 1849: The Communist League of August Willich and Karl Schapper
Christine Lattek
Chapter 13. Chartists and Political Refugees
Iorwerth Prothero
Chapter 14. Immigrants and Refugees: Who were the Real Forty-Eighters in the United States?
Bruce Levine
PART IV: WOMEN IN EXILE
Chapter 15. Keeping Busy in the Waiting-room: German Women Writers in London following the 1848 Revolution
Carol Diethe
Chapter 16. Jeanne Deroin: French Feminist and Socialist in Exile
Pamela Pilbeam
PART V: LEGACY
Chapter 17. Home Alone? Reflections on Political Exiles Returning to their Native Countries
Ansgar Reiss
Index
About the author
Rudolf Muhs is Lecturer in German History at the University of London (Royal Holloway).
Summary
To augment the many celebrations of the anniversary of European revolutions of the middle 19th century, historians from the continent, Britain, and the US follow the story to where, for many revolutionaries, it ended: in exile in London. They look at what Englishmen thought of the refugees, emigr co
