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Author Jianu, Angela.

Title A circle of friends : Romanian revolutionaries and political exile, 1840-1859 / by Angela Jianu
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (382 pages)
Series Balkan studies library, 1877-6272 ; v. 3
Balkan studies library ; 3.
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
Summary 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 Romanian nation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-375) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Revolutionaries -- Romania -- History -- 19th century
Revolutionaries -- Romania -- Biography
Exiles -- Romania -- Biography
Exiles -- Europe -- Biography
Transnationalism -- Political aspects -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
Nation-building -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY.
Exiles
Nation-building
Politics and government
Revolutionaries
SUBJECT Romania -- History -- 1821-1859 -- Biography
Romania -- History -- Revolution, 1848. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115003
Romania -- Politics and government -- 1821-1866. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115019
Europe -- Politics and government -- 1848-1871. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045746
Subject Europe
Romania
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004210233
9004210237