Asylum Between Nations: Refugees in a Revolutionary Era

Why some of the most vulnerable communities in Europe, from independent cities to new monarchies, welcomed refugees during the Age of Revolutions and prospered



Driven from their homelands, refugees from ancient times to the present have sought asylum in worlds turned upside down. Theirs is an age-old story. So too are the solutions to their plight.



In the wake of the American and French Revolutions, thousands of men and women took to the roads and waterways on both sides of the Atlantic-refug...