Asylum between nations: refugees in a revolutionary era

Abstract

Introduction Asylum between Nations -- 1. Aristocratic Émigrés and Luxurious Temptations in Hamburg and Altona -- 2. "A Temple Always Open to Peace": Poets and Ports -- 3. French Connections: "For Commerce and Humanity" -- 4. "The Right Papers" in a World of Nations -- 5. Stateless in Brussels: Transforming the World -- 6. Alliances: "Democrats from the World Over" -- 7. "The Spectre of Communism" and a Revolution "on Our Doorstep" -- 8. "Not Foreigners, but Democrats": Refugees and a Revolution Averted -- 9. The Forty-Eighters in America: The Promise of "an Asylum for Mankind" -- Epilogue "A Destabilized Citizenship" for Refugees