Janet L Polasky
Biographic Data
| ID | 1080985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet L Polasky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet L |
| FAMILY NAME | Polasky |
| SIGNATURE | POLASKY J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Hampshire at Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5293-4516 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Global Crisis, National Borders, and Welcoming Cities
Executive Summary When nation-states have responded to increased migration by intensifying border enforcement, restricting immigrant rights, and closing paths to citizenship, cities have emerged as sanctuaries for displaced and marginalized populations. This article traces a historical pattern of urban refuge across three historical periods—late eighteenth-century Hamburg and Altona, mid-nineteenth-century Brussels, and contemporary Minneapolis—t…
Entangled Family Relations
This transnational history of entangled marriages crossing the Atlantic contrasts the lived realities of women caught up in the American, French, and Caribbean revolutions with the sentimentalized ideals of republican marriage propagated by male diplomats traveling abroad. These diplomats' portrayals of freely chosen marriages in America sought to distinguish them from the arranged liaisons of Old Regime Europe. Many of these male observers marri…
“The Right Papers” in a World of Nations
This chapter examines how the evolving politics of new nations in the transitional era between revolutions had significant consequences on the far side of their borders and beyond their time. It investigates how new nation-states deliberately demarcated borders, separating their realms from those of their neighbors and avidly drawing boundaries between their own citizens and others. The chapter elaborates on how the political unrest and agricultu…
Asylum between Nations
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—refugees in search of their inalienable rights. Although larger nations fortified their borders and circumscribed citi…
A “Whirlpool of Gain”
The thousands of aristocratic emigrants from revolutionary France who found asylum in the independent German city city-state of Hamburg and the neighboring Danish city of Altona were not the only immigrants arriving in the neutral ports. Alongside these flamboyant newcomers, merchants, scholars, artisans, and others continued, as they had for decades, to come in pursuit of the economic opportunities denied them at home. With harbors on the Elbe R…
Atlantic Revolutions
Calls to revolution echoed throughout the Atlantic world at the end of the eighteenth century. Beginning with the American War for Independence from the British, insurrection spread to four continents. From the Americas to Geneva, from the Low Countries to France and the Caribbean, then up and down the West African coast and through the Andes, revolutionaries challenged an old order built on privilege. Thomas Paine proclaimed the decades followin…
Revolutions without Borders
Jonathan Israel. The Expanding Blaze
Jonathan Israel’s revolutionary world pits democrats against aristocrats. The Expanding Blaze, the sixth of Israel’s monumental volumes on Enlightenment and revolution, chronicles the evolution of this rift, from the American Revolution to the revolutions of 1848. In the American Revolution, as in the Enlightenment that inspired it and the revolutions that followed from it, Israel sees radical republican democrats challenging monarchy, aristocrac…
Revolutionaries Between Nations, 1776-1789
Revolutions rolled through Europe in the long decade between the American and French Revolutions, transferring the ideals of liberty and popular sovereignty from one people to another. Anne Thérèse Philippine d’Yve, a Brussels salonnière , rejoiced in 1787 at the insurrections erupting all around her, wherever ‘sovereigns have forced their subjects to submit to the yoke of despotism’. 1 One of her compatriots elaborated: ‘Over half of the globe, …
Light railways and the rural–urban continuum
Transplanting and Rooting Workers in London and Brussels
The Dutch Republic in the Eighteenth Century
Revolution in Brussels, 1787-1793
Internationalism in the age of nationalism
(1992). Internationalism in the age of nationalism. History of European Ideas: Vol. 15, No. 1-3, pp. 211-216
Social Change and the Labouring Poor
Women in Revolutionary Belgium
In 1789 women throughout the Belgian provinces drafted political treatises, coordinated clandestine meetings, led processions, and heaved stones from their housetops onto the retreating Austrian armies below. Having routed the Austrians, the Belgian revolutionaries declared national independence in December. The Austrians returned within the year. But forty years later, as the Belgians waged a second and ultimately successful revolution for indep…
The Politics of Belgium
Traditionalists, Democrats, and Jacobins in Revolutionary Brussels
Providential History in Belgium at the End of the 18th Century
Providential History in Belgium at the End of the 18th Century
Traditionalists, Democrats, and Jacobins in Revolutionary Brussels
Women in Revolutionary Belgium
In 1789 women throughout the Belgian provinces drafted political treatises, coordinated clandestine meetings, led processions, and heaved stones from their housetops onto the retreating Austrian armies below. Having routed the Austrians, the Belgian revolutionaries declared national independence in December. The Austrians returned within the year. But forty years later, as the Belgians waged a second and ultimately successful revolution for indep…
The Politics of Belgium
Social Change and the Labouring Poor
Revolution in Brussels, 1787-1793
Internationalism in the age of nationalism
(1992). Internationalism in the age of nationalism. History of European Ideas: Vol. 15, No. 1-3, pp. 211-216
The Dutch Republic in the Eighteenth Century
Transplanting and Rooting Workers in London and Brussels
Light railways and the rural–urban continuum
Revolutionaries Between Nations, 1776-1789
Revolutions rolled through Europe in the long decade between the American and French Revolutions, transferring the ideals of liberty and popular sovereignty from one people to another. Anne Thérèse Philippine d’Yve, a Brussels salonnière , rejoiced in 1787 at the insurrections erupting all around her, wherever ‘sovereigns have forced their subjects to submit to the yoke of despotism’. 1 One of her compatriots elaborated: ‘Over half of the globe, …
Jonathan Israel. The Expanding Blaze
Jonathan Israel’s revolutionary world pits democrats against aristocrats. The Expanding Blaze, the sixth of Israel’s monumental volumes on Enlightenment and revolution, chronicles the evolution of this rift, from the American Revolution to the revolutions of 1848. In the American Revolution, as in the Enlightenment that inspired it and the revolutions that followed from it, Israel sees radical republican democrats challenging monarchy, aristocrac…
Revolutions without Borders
Atlantic Revolutions
Calls to revolution echoed throughout the Atlantic world at the end of the eighteenth century. Beginning with the American War for Independence from the British, insurrection spread to four continents. From the Americas to Geneva, from the Low Countries to France and the Caribbean, then up and down the West African coast and through the Andes, revolutionaries challenged an old order built on privilege. Thomas Paine proclaimed the decades followin…
A “Whirlpool of Gain”
The thousands of aristocratic emigrants from revolutionary France who found asylum in the independent German city city-state of Hamburg and the neighboring Danish city of Altona were not the only immigrants arriving in the neutral ports. Alongside these flamboyant newcomers, merchants, scholars, artisans, and others continued, as they had for decades, to come in pursuit of the economic opportunities denied them at home. With harbors on the Elbe R…
“The Right Papers” in a World of Nations
This chapter examines how the evolving politics of new nations in the transitional era between revolutions had significant consequences on the far side of their borders and beyond their time. It investigates how new nation-states deliberately demarcated borders, separating their realms from those of their neighbors and avidly drawing boundaries between their own citizens and others. The chapter elaborates on how the political unrest and agricultu…
Asylum between Nations
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—refugees in search of their inalienable rights. Although larger nations fortified their borders and circumscribed citi…
Entangled Family Relations
This transnational history of entangled marriages crossing the Atlantic contrasts the lived realities of women caught up in the American, French, and Caribbean revolutions with the sentimentalized ideals of republican marriage propagated by male diplomats traveling abroad. These diplomats' portrayals of freely chosen marriages in America sought to distinguish them from the arranged liaisons of Old Regime Europe. Many of these male observers marri…
Global Crisis, National Borders, and Welcoming Cities
Executive Summary When nation-states have responded to increased migration by intensifying border enforcement, restricting immigrant rights, and closing paths to citizenship, cities have emerged as sanctuaries for displaced and marginalized populations. This article traces a historical pattern of urban refuge across three historical periods—late eighteenth-century Hamburg and Altona, mid-nineteenth-century Brussels, and contemporary Minneapolis—t…
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