Robert Aldrich

Banished potentates (eBook, ePUB)

Dethroning and exiling indigenous monarchs under British and French colonial rule, 1815-1955

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Though the overthrow and exile of Napoleon in 1815 is a familiar episode in modern history, it is not well known that just a few months later, British colonisers toppled and banished the last king in Ceylon. Beginning with that case, this volume examines the deposition and exile of indigenous monarchs by the British and French - with examples in India, Burma, Malaysia, Vietnam, Madagascar, Tunisia and Morocco - from the early nineteenth century down to the eve of decolonisation. It argues that removal of native sovereigns, and sometimes abolition of dynasties, provided a powerful strategy used by colonisers, though European overlords were seldom capable of quelling resistance in the conquered countries, or of effacing the memory of local monarchies and the legacies they left behind.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526113436
• Artikelnr.: 57472011

Autorenporträt

Robert Aldrich is Professor of European History at The University of Sydney

Inhaltsangabe

1 Thrones and dominion: European colonisers and indigenous monarchs 2 The
last king in Ceylon: the British and Sri Vikrama Rajasinha, 1815 3 Kings of
Orient were: royal exile in British Asia 4 'Dragons of Annam': the French
and three emperors in Vietnam 5 Out of Africa: the British, French and
African monarchs 6 The French and the queen of Madagascar: Ranavalona III,
1897 7 From conquest to decolonisation: exile from French North Africa
Conclusion Bibliography Index