Crowns and colonies : European monarchies and overseas empires

Aldrich, Robert, 1954- (editor.).

Record details

ISBN: 1784993158
ISBN: 9781784993153
Physical Description: print
xii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Machine generated contents note: 1. European sovereigns and their empires `beyond the seas' / Cindy McCreery -- 2. British royal family and the colonial empire from the Georgians to Prince George / Miles Taylor -- 3. Two Victorias? Prince Alfred, Queen Victoria and Melbourne, 1867--68 / Cindy McCreery -- 4. Kaiser Wilhelm II and the limits of the royal prerogative in German South-West Africa / Matthew P. Fitzpatrick -- 5. Orangists in a red empire: salutations from a Dutch queen's supporters in a British South Africa / Susie Protschky -- 6. Sultans and the House of Orange-Nassau: Indonesian perceptions of power relationships with the Dutch / Jean Gelman Taylor -- 7. return of the throne: the repatriation of the Kandyan regalia to Ceylon / Robert Aldrich -- 8. Kingitanga and Crown: New Zealand's Maori King movement and its relationship with the British monarchy / Vincent O'Malley -- 9. Maharani of Kutch and courtly life before and after Indian Independence / Jim Masselos -- 10. Colonies, monarchy, empire and the French ancien regime / Francois-Joseph Ruggiu -- 11. Napoleon III and France's colonial expansion: national grandeur, territorial conquests and colonial embellishment, 1852--70 / Emmanuelle Guenot -- 12. British, the Hashemites and monarchies in the Middle East / Matthieu Rey -- 13. empire for a kingdom: monarchy and Fascism in the Italian colonies / Alessandro Pes -- 14. `So brave Etruria grew': dividing the Crown in early colonial New South Wales, 1808--10 / Bruce Baskerville -- 15. new monarchy for a new commonwealth? Monarchy and the consequences of republican India / H. Kumarasingham -- 16. Waiting to die? The British monarchy in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, 1991--2016 / Mark McKenna.