Overview
- 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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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.
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Conceptualizing the Royal Nation
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Visualizing and Performing the Royal Nation
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Remembering the Royal Nation
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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
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.
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transnational Histories of the 'Royal Nation'
Editors: Milinda Banerjee, Charlotte Backerra, Cathleen Sarti
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50523-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50522-0Published: 08 May 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84419-0Published: 07 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50523-7Published: 27 April 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-5864
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5872
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 365
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, History of Modern Europe, Cultural History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Political History