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Transnational Histories of the 'Royal Nation'

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Editors:
  1. Milinda Banerjee

    1. Presidency University, Kolkata, India

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  2. Charlotte Backerra

    1. University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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  3. Cathleen Sarti

    1. University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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  • Challenges the existing historiography that portrays monarchies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as relics of the past, from a global historical perspective
  • Interrogates the relationship between royals and ‘their’ nations with transnational case studies from Asia, Africa, Europe as well as South America
  • Discusses concepts and structures, representations, and memory cultures of modern monarchies in relation to rising nationalist movements

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy (PSMM)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. The Royal Nation in Global Perspective

    • Charlotte Backerra, Milinda Banerjee, Cathleen Sarti
    Pages 1-17

  4. Visualizing and Performing the Royal Nation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. From the White Tsar to the Russian Tsar: Monarchy and Russian Nationalism in Tsarist Turkestan, 1867–1917

      • Ulrich Hofmeister
      Pages 133-154

    3. The Monarchs’ New Clothes: Transnational Flows and the Fashioning of the Modern Japanese and Siamese Monarchies

      • David Malitz
      Pages 155-175

    4. ‘Mein Hessenland blühe und in ihm die Kunst’. Ernst Ludwig’s Darmstädter Künstlerkolonie: Building Nationhood through the Arts and Crafts

      • Anne Anderson
      Pages 177-202

    5. Performing Monarchy and Spanish Nationalism (1902–13)

      • Javier Moreno-Luzón
      Pages 203-222

    6. The Dragon Flag in the Republican Nation: The Dowager Empress Longyu’s Death Ritual in 1913 and Contested Political Legitimacy in Early Republican China

      • Jia Feng
      Pages 223-241
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About this book

This book challenges existing accounts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in which political developments are explained in terms of the rise of the nation-state. While monarchies are often portrayed as old-fashioned – as things of the past – we argue that modern monarchies have been at the centre of nation-construction in many parts of the world. Today, roughly a quarter of states define themselves as monarchies as well as nation-states – they are Royal Nations. This is a global phenomenon. This volume interrogates the relationship between royals and ‘their’ nations with transnational case studies from Asia, Africa, Europe as well as South America. The seventeen contributors discuss concepts and structures, visual and performative representations, and memory cultures of modern monarchies in relation to rising nationalist movements. This book thereby analyses the worldwide significance of the Royal Nation.

Reviews

“In its totality, this brilliant, timely book succeeds in recasting monarchy as a truly global and shockingly modern mechanism of political theory and practice.” (Kiri Paramore, Leiden University, the Netherlands)

“This is an unusually coherent exercise in conducting comparative history on a global scale.” (Nile Green, UCLA, USA)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Presidency University, Kolkata, India

    Milinda Banerjee

  • University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

    Charlotte Backerra, Cathleen Sarti

About the editors

Milinda Banerjee is Assistant Professor at Presidency University, Kolkata, India. 


Charlotte Backerra is Lecturer for Early Modern European History at the University of Stuttgart and at the University of Mainz, Germany.


Cathleen Sarti is Lecturer for Early Modern European History at the University of Mainz, Germany.



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