The French Emigres in Europe and the Struggle against Revolution, 1789-1814
Philip Mansel author K Carpenter editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Published:19th Jul '99
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FRAeDERIC d'AGAY Independent Historian NIGEL ASTON Senior Lecturer in History, University of Lutton SIMON BURROWS Lecturer in History, Waikato University in Hamilton, New Zealand DOMINIC AIDAN BELLENGER Associate Lecturer of the Open University and teacher at Bath Spa University College and the University of Bristol MALCOLM COOK Professor of Eighteenth-Century French Studies, School of Modern Languages, University of Exeter WILLIAM DOYLE Professor of History, University of Bristol ALMUT FRANKE Assistant Lecturer, Ludwig-Maximiliams-Universitat, Munich ANGELICA GOODDEN Fellow and Tutor in French, St Hilda's College, Oxford THOMAS HA-PEL Lecturer in the Centre of French Studies, Leipzig University DAVID HIGGS Professor of History and Fellow of University College, University of Toronto THOMAS SOSNOWSKI Associate Professor of History, Kent State University, Stark Campus in Canton, Ohio FERENC TOTH Lecturer in History, French Department, Berzsenyi Daniel College, Szombathely, West Hungary
The French Émigrés in Europe and the Struggle against Revolution, 1789-1814 underlines, for the first time, the achievements rather than the failures, of the Émigrés. The French Émigrés were more than refugees, they were active, and often remarkably successful, agents on the European struggle against the French Revolution.The French Émigrés in Europe and the Struggle against Revolution, 1789-1814 underlines, for the first time, the achievements rather than the failures, of the Émigrés. Different specialist essays describe their impact from London to Hungary, from Lisbon to Prussia, and confirm their critical importance in the politics, ideology and culture of their time. The French Émigrés were more than refugees, they were active, and often remarkably successful, agents on the European struggle against the French Revolution.
'This collection of essays opens up a neglected aspect of the French Revolution: the experiences of those who fled abroad and their efforts to come to terms with the societies in which they found themselves. It throws a new light on the diversity and complexity of a subject that has too often been taken for granted.' - Norman Hampson, Professor Emeritus, University of York 'Like political refugees throughout history, those who emigrated from Revolutionary France have received short shrift from historians of the period. Too often they have been presented as rather lifeless stereotypes, the stuff of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary legends, to be praised by royalists and reviled by radicals. This timely collection of essays discusses the Aemigres as individuals and examines their diverse experiences across widely contrasting European societies. In the process it helps to show them as men and women forced by circumstance to make hard and painful choices.' - Alan Forrest, Professor of History, University of York
ISBN: 9780333744369
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Weight: 485g
236 pages