A circle of friends : Romanian revolutionaries and political exile, 1840-1859 /

A study of Romanian revolutionaries exiled after the European insurrections of 1848. Drawing on their memoirs and private correspondence, it reveals the transnational links they established with French republicans, English radicals and Italian freedom-fighters in their attempts to build the modern R...

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Main Author: Jianu, Angela
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Series:Balkan studies library ; 3.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Students and revolutionaries, 1844-1848
  • Jules Michelet, "Madame Rosetti," 1855
  • 1837-1841 : early diplomatic ventures
  • 1844-1848 : the College de France : sociability and protest
  • Jules Michelet and "les Franco-Roumains" : Dumitru Bratianu
  • 1848 in Paris and Europe
  • 1848-1849 : Bucharest between St. Petersburg and Constantinople
  • A Transylvanian interlude
  • 1848 : epilogue
  • pt. 2. Exile, 1849-1855
  • 1849, Paris : early Days in exile
  • 1849 : Dumitru Bratianu and the English "philo-Romanians"
  • Hungarians and Romanians in 1849-1850
  • April 1849 : the Transylvanian debacle
  • July-August 1849
  • September 1849
  • December 1849
  • 1850 : "la Roumanie"
  • April-September 1850
  • 1851 : London : Mazzini's European Democratic Committee
  • 1851 : London-Bucharest-Paris
  • 1852 : Nantes-Paris-Bucharest
  • 1853 : Nantes-Paris-London
  • 1853 : Paris : "Madame Rosetti"
  • 1853-1854 : Paris : Ion Bratianu and the "Hippodrome Affair"
  • 1853 : Paris-Gallipoli-Constantinople : Rosetti's war
  • January-February 1854 : London
  • January 1854 : Serbia
  • The Crimean War
  • The Daily news and the Romanian principalities
  • The end of the war and the peace conference
  • pt. 3. The return of the exiles, 1856-1857
  • A republican funeral
  • The ad-hoc assemblies and the European commissioners
  • July 1856
  • October : the Brighton meeting
  • 1857
  • The elections
  • 1858 : the Congress of Paris and the union of the principalities
  • Epilogue: After exile
  • The uses of the press
  • The "people question"
  • The uses of exile
  • Liberalism in Romania
  • Conclusions
  • Dramatis personae.