French emigration to Great Britain in response to the French Revolution
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French emigration to Great Britain in response to the French Revolution
(War, culture and society, 1750-1850)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2017
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-251) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction.- 2. Emigres, 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 Emigre 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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