French Emigration to Great Britain in Response to the French Revolution (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

This book examines diverse encounters between the British community and the thousands of French individuals who sought haven in the British Isles as they left revolutionary and Imperial France. This painstaking research into the emigrant archival and memorial presence in Britain uncovers a wealth of underused and alternative sources on this controversial population displacement. These include open letters and classified advertisements published in British newspapers, insurance contracts, as well as lists of addresses and passports drawn up by local authorities. These sources question the construction by British loyalists and French emigre elites of a stereotyped emigrant figure and their use of the trauma of forced displacement to advance ideological agendas. In fact, public and private discourses on governmental systems, foreigners, political and religious dissent, and the economic survival of French emigrants, demonstrate the heterogeneity of the responses to emigration in Britain. Ultimately, this book narrates a story in which the emigrant community and its host have been often unnoticeably yet fundamentally transformed by their encounter, in both practical and ideological domains.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850
Release date:	September 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Juliette Reboul
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	268
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-57995-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > Immigration & emigration Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Revolutions & coups Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN:	3-319-57995-9
Barcode:	9783319579955

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