Transnational Histories of the 'Royal Nation'
Editors: Banerjee, Milinda, Backerra, Charlotte, Sarti, Cathleen (Eds.)
Free Preview- 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
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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. - Reviews
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“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)
- Table of contents (17 chapters)
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The Royal Nation in Global Perspective
Pages 1-17
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The Royal Nation and Global Intellectual History: Monarchic Routes to Conceptualizing National Unity
Pages 21-43
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Resilient in Adversity: The Monarchical State in Prussia and Sardinia-Piedmont, 1847–51
Pages 45-66
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Nepalese Monarchy in an Age of Codification: Kingship, Patriotism, and Legality in the Nepalese Code of 1854
Pages 67-86
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Loss of Control: Kaiser Wilhelm II, Mass Media, and the National Identity of the Second German Reich
Pages 87-107
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Transnational Histories of the 'Royal Nation'
- Editors
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- Milinda Banerjee
- Charlotte Backerra
- Cathleen Sarti
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-50523-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-50523-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-50522-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-84419-0
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XX, 365
- Number of Illustrations
- 7 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
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