French Emigration to Great Britain in Response to the French Revolution

French Emigration to Great Britain in Response to the French Revolution by Juliette Reboul.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reboul, Juliette (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:War, Culture and Society, 1750 –1850
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
France—History.
Europe—History—1492-.
Military history.
Social history.
Civilization—History.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Émigrés, Refugees and Emigrants
  • 3. Britain and Britons in Emigrant Retrospective Self-Narratives
  • 4. Discursive Constructions of the Emigrant Figure in Loyalist Britain
  • 5. British Charities and the Émigré Ideological Pursuit of Social Inequality
  • 6. Marketing the Trauma of Displacement in Classified Adverts
  • 7. Speaking, Reading and Publishing as a French Emigrant in a British Context
  • 8. Settling preoccupations and investment of the host territory
  • 9. The disenchantment of the emigrant world
  • 10. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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