BARTŁOMIEJ BENIOWSKI 1800-1867 COSMOPOLITICAL CHARTIST AND REVOLUTIONARY REFUGEE HARRIS E. Księgarnia

Bartłomiej Beniowski 1800-1867

Cosmopolitical Chartist and Revolutionary Refugee

This is the first reconstruction in either Britain or Poland of the life of Bartłomiej Beniowski, a Polish post-1831 émigré who was the only foreign refugee to play an identifiable role in early London Chartism. It places Beniowski’s Chartist record in the context of his earlier political affiliations, and explores his post-Chartist political allegiances. It investigates his success in 1840s London as a mnemonist who developed a system that he called “Phrenotypics,” and his invention in the 1850s of printing techniques which were taken up for commercial exploitation by a group of entrepreneurial Liberal M.P.s. It is the biography of an exceptional and colourful individual, acted out against a vast multi-cultural backdrop, from tsarist Russia to Liberal England via Orléanist France and Muhammad Ali’s Egypt. It reveals a life-long commitment to the cause of Polish independence, along with consistent advocacy of democracy and championship of the oppressed, including vocal campaigns for Jewish civil rights. It provides the narrative of a life that illustrates contemporary European political and social movements and their bearing on 19th-century British labour history.

Foreword 7
A note on Polish history                 . 12
A note on sources                    13
A note on the spelling of proper names           15

1. Berdyczów, Wilno, St. Petersburg, 1800‒1830        17
2. The Russo-Polish war, 1830‒1831             69
3. Paris, 1831‒1833                     121
4. The Middle East, 1833‒1834                173
5. Clermont-Ferrand, 1834‒1836               . 219
6. Polish London, 1836‒1840                 257
7. A cosmopolitical Chartist, 1836–1840           . 319
8. Mnemonics, Masons and Monarchism, 1840–1847       381
9. False dawns: politics and printing, 1848‒1856        445
10. The last decade: revolutionary socialism, 1856‒1867     . 495

Bibliography and List of abbreviations             545
Index of persons and institutions               . 575

600 pages, Paperback

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