Crowns and colonies (eBook, ePUB)

European monarchies and overseas empires
Redaktion: Aldrich, Robert; Mccreery, Cindy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Queen Victoria, who also bore the title of Empress of India, had a real and abiding interest in the British Empire, but other European monarchs also ruled over possessions 'beyond the seas'. This collection of original essays explores the connections between monarchy and colonialism, from the old regime empires down to the Commonwealth of today. With case studies drawn from Britain, France, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy, the chapters analyse constitutional questions about the role of the crown in overseas empires, the pomp and pageantry of the monarchy as it transferred to the colonies, and the fate of indigenous sovereigns under European colonial control. The volume, with chapters on North America, Asia, Africa and Australasia, provides new perspectives on colonial history, the governance of empire, and the transnational history of monarchies in modern Europe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526100894
• Artikelnr.: 48796160

Autorenporträt

Robert Aldrich is Professor of European History at the University of Sydney Cindy McCreery is Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Sydney

Inhaltsangabe

1 European sovereigns and their empires 'beyond the seas'
Robert Aldrich and Cindy McCreery 2 The British royal family and the colonial empire from the Georgians to Prince George
Miles Taylor 3 Two Victorias? Prince Alfred, Queen Victoria and Melbourne, 1867
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Cindy McCreery 4 Kaiser Wilhelm II and the limits of the royal prerogative in German South
West Africa
Matthew P. Fitzpatrick 5 Orangists in a red empire: salutations from a Dutch queen's supporters in a British South Africa
Susie Protschky 6 Sultans and the House of Orange
Nassau: Indonesian perceptions of power relationships with the Dutch
Jean Gelman Taylor 7 The return of the throne: the repatriation of the Kandyan regalia to Ceylon
Robert Aldrich 8 Kingitanga and Crown: New Zealand's Maori King movement and its relationship with the British monarchy
Vincent O'Malley 9 The Maharani of Kutch and courtly life before and after Indian independence
Jim Masselos 10 Colonies, monarchy, empire and the French ancien régime
François
Joseph Ruggiu 11 Napoleon III and France's colonial expansion: national grandeur, territorial conquests and colonial embellishment, 1852
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Emmanuelle Guenot 12 The British, the Hashemites and monarchies in the Middle East
Matthieu Rey 13 An empire for a kingdom: monarchy and Fascism in the Italian colonies
Alessandro Pes 14 'So brave Etruria grew': dividing the Crown in early colonial New South Wales, 1808
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Bruce Baskerville 15 A new monarchy for a new commonwealth? Monarchy and the consequences of republican India
Harshan Kumarasingham 16 Waiting to die? The British monarchy in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, 1991
2015
Mark McKenna Index