Télécharger le livre :  Modernizing Europe's Imperial Monarchies

Up until recently, Europe’s three imperial monarchies – the German, Austrian, and Russian Empires – were seen as moribund political entities, unable to accommodate the forces of political, social, economic, and cultural modernization, and as a result collapsed...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-05-28
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy
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Télécharger le livre :  Wilhelm I as German Emperor

This book offers the first-ever scholarly study of Wilhelm I as Germany’s first Kaiser. For decades, Wilhelm has been dismissed by historians as a political nullity and an unwilling imperial figurehead, who was perpetually overruled by chancellor Otto von Bismarck. As a...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-01-17
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy
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Télécharger le livre :  The Heirs to the Savoia Throne and the Construction of ‘Italianità', 1860-1900

This book explores the evolution of the role of the heirs to the throne of Italy between 1860 and 1900. It focuses on the future kings Umberto I (1844-1900) and Vittorio Emanuele III (1869-1947), and their respective spouses, Margherita of Savoia (1851-1926) and Elena...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-05-26
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy
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Télécharger le livre :  Survival and Revival in Sweden's Court and Monarchy, 1718–1930

This book will be the first to deeply analyze the Swedish court and monarchy through a longue duree perspective to show the crucial role of the court in maintaining a relationship between the monarchy and nobility throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries....
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-11-13
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy
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Télécharger le livre :  Popular Legitimism and the Monarchy in France

This book explores mid-nineteenth-century French legitimism and the implications of popular support for a movement that has traditionally been portrayed as an aristocratic force intent on restoring the Old Regime.This type of monarchism has often been understood as a...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-09-10
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy
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Télécharger le livre :  Monarchies and the Great War

This volume challenges the traditional view that the First World War represents a pivotal turning point in the long history of monarchy, suggesting the picture is significantly more complex. Using a comparative approach, it explores the diverse roles played by monarchs...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-10-11
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy
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Télécharger le livre :  Raising Heirs to the Throne in Nineteenth-Century Spain

This book analyses royal education in nineteenth-century, constitutional Spain. Its main subjects are Isabel II (1830- 1904), Alfonso XII (1857-1885) and Alfonso XIII (1886-1941) during their time as monarchs-in-waiting. Their upbringing was considered an opportunity to...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-05-31
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy
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Télécharger le livre :  The 'Sailor Prince' in the Age of Empire

This book explores the puzzling phenomenon of the remarkable revival of monarchy in nineteenth-century Europe through a new prism: the public persona of the ‘Sailor Prince’. It highlights how four usually overlooked dynastic figures – the younger sons and brothers of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-09-21
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy
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Télécharger le livre :  Transnational Histories of the 'Royal Nation'

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...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-04-27
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy
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Télécharger le livre :  The Windsor Dynasty 1910 to the Present

This book explores the recreation and subsequent development of the British Monarchy during the twentieth century.  Contributors examine the phenomenon of modern monarchy through an exploration of the establishment and the continuing impact of the Windsor...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-12-01
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy
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Télécharger le livre :  Royal Heirs and the Uses of Soft Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe

This volume brings together a fascinating selection of studies exploring the soft power tools used by heirs to the throne in order to enhance the communication of monarchies with their audiences during the nineteenth-century. How we perceive royals and their dynasties...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-10-15
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy
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Télécharger le livre :  The State Visits of Edward VII

This book explores the revival under Edward VII of the ceremonial state visit by British monarchs, showing the impact and importance of active royal diplomacy during his reign. Using the Royal Archives, memoirs and newspapers, it reveals the contribution made by the use...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-02-04
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy
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Télécharger le livre :  Sons and Heirs

Bringing together an international team of specialists, this volume considers the place of royal heirs within their families, their education and accommodation, their ability to overcome succession crises, the consequences of the death of an heir and finally the roles...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-10-20
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy
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