David Johnson

Battle Royal

Monarchists vs. Republicans and the Crown of Canada

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What is the future of the monarchy in Canada? A strong republican movement in Canada stresses that the monarchy is archaic and anti-democratic, an embarrassing vestige of our colonial past. An equally vibrant monarchist movement, however, defends its loyalty to royalty, asserting that the Queen is a living link to a political and constitutional tradition dating back over a thousand years. But is the monarchy worth keeping? Battle Royal answers this question and many more: What does the Queen really do? What are the powers of the governor general? Has the Crown strengthened or weakened Canadian democracy? If we abolish the monarchy, what do we replace it with? And will we have to re-open the constitution? Charles will soon become King of Canada, but a Canada highly ambivalent to his reign. This presents the representatives of the Crown with the opportunity to build a better monarchy in both Britain and Canada, one relevant to the twenty-first century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dundurn
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9781459740136
• ISBN-10: 1459740130
• Artikelnr.: 47972681

Autorenporträt

David Johnson has had three non-fiction books about the First World War published - One Soldier and Hitler, 1918: The Story of Henry Tandey VC DCM MM / The Man Who Didn't Shoot Hitler: The Story of Henry Tandey VC and Adolf Hitler, 1918; Executed at Dawn: British Firing Squads on the Western Front 1914-1918; The Last Campaign of World War One (1990 - 2006): The Fight to Win Pardons for Those Executed. The Enemy at Home is his first novel to be published and again it is set in the First World War.