Heather Jones (University College London)

For King and Country

The British Monarchy and the First World War

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a ground-breaking history of the British monarchy in the First World War and of the social and cultural functions that monarchism played. It is the first study to fully explore the role of the monarchy during the war and challenges assumptions that the conflict undermined the crown.

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Produktdetails

• Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 165mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1052g
• ISBN-13: 9781108429368
• ISBN-10: 110842936X
• Artikelnr.: 61413288

Autorenporträt

Heather Jones is Professor of Modern and Contemporary European History at University College London. An expert on the First World War, her previous publications include Violence against Prisoners of War in the First World War: Britain, France and Germany, 1914-1920 (2011). She is a former Max Weber Fellow of the European University Institute and has been awarded the Irish Research Council's Eda Sagarra Gold Medal.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Prelude: The monarchy and wartime political power. Part I.
The role of the British monarchy in cultural mobilisation for war: 1.
Monarchist mentalities and British mobilisation, 1914-1916; 2. Monarchist
culture and combatant practices. Part II. The emperor's new clothes:
Changing cultures of deference: 3. The royal body in wartime; 4.
De-sacralisation discourses - challenges to the monarchy's status,
1916-1918. Part III. The unknown soldier: The role of the monarchy in
post-war commemoration; 5. The monarchy and the armistice: Ritualising
victory, channelling war grief; 6. The monarchy's role in sacralising
post-war commemoration; Conclusion.