Böcker av Sabine Freitag

To augment the many celebrations of the anniversary of European revolutions of the middle 19th century, historians from the continent, Britain, and the US follow the story to where, for many revolutionaries, it ended: in exile in London. They look at what Englishmen thought of the refugees, emigr co

Friedrich Hecker was a major leader of a rebellion on behalf of the German republican movement in 1848, but his defeat forced him into exile in America. This work draws from original sources, including letters and diaries at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection, the Missouri Historical Society, and the St Louis Mercantile Library.