<P> The Texas Hill Country was settled by German intellectuals fleeing the reactionary purges (German Texans). More widely, many disillusioned and persecuted revolutionaries, in particular (though not exclusively) those from Germany and the Austrian Empire, left their homelands for foreign exile in the New World or in the more liberal European nations: these emigrants were known as the Forty - Eighters . </P> <P> Steven Brust and Emma Bull's 1997 epistolary novel Freedom & Necessity is set in England in the aftermath of the Revolutions of 1848 . </P> <P> Mike Duncan's Revolutions Podcast series covered the Revolutions of 1848 starting with episode 7.01 . </P>

What role did nationalism play in the revolutions of 1848