Monarchy and Exile (eBook, PDF)

The Politics of Legitimacy from Marie de Médicis to Wilhelm II

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Produktbeschreibung

Using detailed studies of fifteen exiled royal figures, the role of Exile in European Society and in the evolution of national cultures is examined. From the Jacobite court to the exiled Kings' of Hanover, the book provides an alternative history of monarchical power from the 16th to 20th century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230321793
• Artikelnr.: 45971627

Autorenporträt

KAREN BRITLAND Associate Professor, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA EDWARD CORP Professor of British History, the Université de Toulouse, France JOHN JEREMIAH CRONIN City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee, Ireland PETER HICKS Visiting Professor, the University of Bath, UK, and Research Fellow, the Fondation Napoléon, Paris, France ANN HUGHES Professor of Early Modern History, Keele University, UK ANNA KEAY Properties Presentation Director for English Heritage, UK PHILIP MANSEL Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Institute of Historical Research, London, UK HEIDI MEHRKENS Lecturer, the University of Brunswick, Canada WILLIAM O'REILLY University Lecturer in Early Modern History, University of Cambridge, UK TOBY OSBORNE Senior Lecturer in History, Durham University, UK JAMES RETALLACK Research Fellow, the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Düsseldorf, Germany TORSTEN RIOTTE Lecturer in History, the University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany JOHN RÖHL Emeritus Professor of German History, the University of Sussex, UK GUY STAIR SAINTY Independent Scholar and Fellow of the International Commission for Orders of Chivalry JULIE SANDERS Professor of English Literature and Drama, the University of Nottingham, UK FERENC TÓTH Professor of Modern History, the University of Western Hungary

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Monarchical Exile; P.Mansel & T.Riotte PART I: VARIETIES OF EXILE A Queen Mother in Exile; T.Osborne Gender, Exile and The Hague Courts of Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia and Mary, Princess of Orange; A.Hughes A Life in Exile; W.O'Reilly Emigrated or Exiled?; F.Tóth PART II: THE STUART CASE 'The Shadow of a King?'; A.Keay Exile or Homecoming?; K.Britland Monarchy and Exile; J.Cronin The Extended Exile of James III; E.Corp PART III: FRENCH EXILES From Exile to the Throne; P.Mansel Napoleon on Elba; P.Hicks The Politics of Waiting; H.Mehrkens PART IV: NATION-BUILDING The Bourbons of Naples in Exile; G.Stair Sainty 'To My Loyal Saxons!'; J.Retallack Hanoverian Exile and Prussian Governance; T.Riotte Epilogue: Kaiser Wilhelm II 'The Unicorn in winter'; J.C.G.Röhl Index

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List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Monarchical Exile; P.Mansel & T.Riotte PART I: VARIETIES OF EXILE A Queen Mother in Exile; T.Osborne Gender, Exile and The Hague Courts of Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia and Mary, Princess of Orange; A.Hughes A Life in Exile; W.O'Reilly Emigrated or Exiled?; F.Tóth PART II: THE STUART CASE 'The Shadow of a King?'; A.Keay Exile or Homecoming?; K.Britland Monarchy and Exile; J.Cronin The Extended Exile of James III; E.Corp PART III: FRENCH EXILES From Exile to the Throne; P.Mansel Napoleon on Elba; P.Hicks The Politics of Waiting; H.Mehrkens PART IV: NATION-BUILDING The Bourbons of Naples in Exile; G.Stair Sainty 'To My Loyal Saxons!'; J.Retallack Hanoverian Exile and Prussian Governance; T.Riotte Epilogue: Kaiser Wilhelm II 'The Unicorn in winter'; J.C.G.Röhl Index