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By Constance Bantman

ISBN-10: 1846318807

ISBN-13: 9781846318801

This ebook is a learn of political exile and transnational activism within the late-Victorian interval. It explores the historical past of approximately 500 French-speaking anarchists who lived in exile in London among 1880 and 1914, with an in depth specialise in the Nineties, while their presence peaked. those members sought to flee extreme repression in France, at a time whilst anarchist-inspired terrorism swept over the Western international. until eventually the 1905 extraterrestrial beings Act, Britain was once the exception in holding a liberal method of the containment of anarchism and terrorism; it was once for this reason the alternative vacation spot of foreign exiled anarchists, simply because it were for past generations of progressive exiles during the 19th century. those French teams in London performed a strategic position within the reinvention of anarchism at a time of problem, but in addition prompted extreme ethical panic in France, Britain and beyond.

This research retraces the lives of those mostly unknown members - how they struggled to get by way of within the nice late-Victorian city, their social and political interactions between themselves, with different exiled teams and their host society. The myths surrounding their rumoured terrorist actions are tested, in addition to the consistent overt and covert surveillance which French and British intelligence prone stored over them. The debates surrounding the arguable asylum granted to overseas anarchists, and particularly the French, are provided, displaying their position within the redefinition of British liberalism. The political legacy of those 'London years' can be analysed, due to the fact exile contributed to the formation of small yet effective transnational networks, which have been pivotal to the improvement and overseas dissemination of syndicalism and, much less effectively, to anti-war propaganda within the run as much as 1914.

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