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Monarchy and Exile

The Politics of Legitimacy from Marie de Médicis to Wilhelm II

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Introduction: Monarchical Exile

    1. Introduction: Monarchical Exile

      • Philip Mansel, Torsten Riotte
      Pages 1-13
  3. French Exiles

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
    2. Napoleon on Elba: An Exile of Consent

      • Peter Hicks
      Pages 214-229
  4. Adversaries to Nation-Building

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 251-251
    2. The Bourbons of Naples in Exile

      • Guy Stair Sainty
      Pages 253-278

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • London, UK

    Philip Mansel

  • Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

    Torsten Riotte

About the editors

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

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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