1848 by Mike Rapport

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    In writing this book I have received a lot of help and support, so I have many people to thank. My former doctoral supervisor and friend Bill Doyle first brought me to the attention of Tim Whiting at Little, Brown, so ‘Salut et Fraternité!’ I am grateful to Tim for his enthusiasm in the early stages of this book, and to his successor, Steve Guise, who has been a patient, kind and generous editor. I should also like to thank Iain Hunt, Kerry Chapple, Philip Parr (a superb copy editor: all blunders and errors - of judgement and of fact - are of course my own) and Jenny Fry at Little, Brown for their great work in the editing process and the publicity. Among colleagues, I salute Jim Smyth, who has been a good friend and a fine head of department; and Bob McKean, whom we were sorry to lose to retirement, for his generosity and his irrepressible enthusiasm - he has always taken a great interest in my work, such as it is. Looking beyond the history department, I should thank the University of Stirling for granting me a semester’s sabbatical leave to allow me to start work on this project in the autumn of 2005. Kevin Adamson set me right on some important details, while Daniela Luigia Caglioti gave me a copy of her interesting article on foreign Protestants in southern Italy during 1848. My friend and colleague, the excellent Dave Andress, read a full copy of the typescript: if this book is ever thought to be any good, it will be largely thanks to his perceptive comments. The library staff at the University of Stirling have, as always, been cheerfully helpful. In particular, this book could not have been written without the assistance of the nice people at the Document Delivery Service. I should also add that the staff at Glasgow University Library are excellent and the collections there superb. Furthermore, I acknowledge the help of the National Library of Scotland, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the Archives Nationales in Paris. Thanks also go to my mother and Mike for putting up with me during the research trips to Paris, while my father and Jane provided me with urgently needed computer technology at an important stage of this project. My mother-in-law, Elizabeth Comerford, and Brenda Swan, Maureen and Robert Burns, Michael Bell and Sophie Rickard, also helped ease the pressure at a crucial stage in the editing.
    During the writing of this book, our little daughter, Lily Jessica Anita, arrived: she is a firecracker with all her mother’s strength of will. She has made the late evenings of tapping at the laptop worth it - and, besides all the joy she has brought us, I thank her for sleeping through the night! Finally, the last year has been one of the busiest, but perhaps one of the happiest, of my life: this is thanks to Helen, who has done so much to make this book possible. I have no doubt that, given her feisty nature, she would have been among the women standing on the barricades in 1848. This book is dedicated to her with gratitude and love.
    It is also a tribute to the memory of my grandfather, a great, expansive, generous and good man, and to that of my brother-in-law, John, a kind, gentle, decent and dependable friend who passed away suddenly during the last day of editing. Both are sorely missed. Eternal and blessed memory.
    Mike Rapport
Stirling, April 2008

INDEX

    1840s:
    1989 revolutions

    Â 
    Abdülmecid, Sultan
    absolute monarchy
    Academic Legion
    Adda, Carlo’
    Affre (archbishop of Paris)
    Agoult, Marie’
    Albert, Archduke
    Alexander:
    Algeria
    Alsace
    Andrássy, Gyula
    anti-Semitism
    Arago, Étienne
    Arago, François
    armed forces: Austria; Baden; control of; Hungarian War of Independence; Hungary; Paris; Prussia; Russia
    Armellini, Carlo
    Arnim-Boitzenburg, von
    artisans; Germany; Hungary; Italy; Luxembourg Commission, see also workers
    assimilation
    Association for King and Fatherland
    Association for the Protection of the Interest of Landed