Exiles from European Revolutions Refugees in Mid-Victorian England [Paperback]

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.

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: EMIGR? 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: EMIGR? POLITICS

Chapter 10.Voices of Exile: French Newspapers in England