Transnational histories of the 'royal nation'. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Milinda Banerjee, Charlotte Backerra, Cathleen Sarti, editors.
• Editors: Banerjee, Milinda, 1985-; Backerra, Charlotte; Sarti, Cathleen
• Contents: Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Contributors; List of Figures; Chapter 1: The Royal Nation in Global Perspective; Notes; Part I: Conceptualizing the Royal Nation; Chapter 2: The Royal Nation and Global Intellectual History: Monarchic Routes to Conceptualizing National Unity; Intellectual Histories of the Royal Nation: Problems and Prospects; Comparative Frames; Connected Histories and Travels; Theologies of Monarchic Nationhood; Early Modern Histories and Methodological Lessons; Monarchism Without a Monarchy, or the Translation of Sovereignty Monarchic Concepts and Nationalisms in Royal and Post-Royal Societies: Concluding ReflectionsNotes; Chapter 3: Resilient in Adversity: The Monarchical State in Prussia and Sardinia-Piedmont, 1847-51; 1848: Resilience Between Reform and Revolution; Teleological Conceptions of Modernization and Nationalism in Post-Revolutionary Europe; Reinventing the Monarchical Discourse: Constitutional Reforms and National Mission; Resilience: The Main Agent of Change in Mid-­Nineteenth-­Century Italy and Germany; Notes Chapter 4: Nepalese Monarchy in an Age of Codification: Kingship, Patriotism, and Legality in the Nepalese Code of 1854Introduction; Kingship and Nationalism in Nineteenth Century Nepal; The Formation of the Mulukı̄ Ain; Kingship, Law, and Patriotism in the Mulukı̄ Ain; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5: Loss of Control: Kaiser Wilhelm II, Mass Media, and the National Identity of the Second German Reich; Forging the Nation Through the Dynasty; The Monarch as the Anchor of a National Discourse; The Limits of National Integration Through the Dynasty; Conclusion: The European Dimension; Notes Chapter 6: The Comparative Endurance and Legacy of Morocco's Royal NationIntroduction; The Phenomenon: An Unexpected Contemporary Islamist Monarchy?; 'God, the Nation, the King': Morocco's Nationalist Glue; A Revitalized, Reinvented Ruling Monarchy in Morocco: What Kind of Royal Nation?; Conclusion: Morocco and Rethinking the Royal Nation more Generally; Notes; Part II: Visualizing and Performing the Royal Nation; Chapter 7: From the White Tsar to the Russian Tsar: Monarchy and Russian Nationalism in Tsarist Turkestan, 1867-1917; Introduction The White Tsar: The Monarchy as a Supranational InstitutionThe Tsar as a Russian Ruler; Notes; Chapter 8: The Monarchs' New Clothes: Transnational Flows and the Fashioning of the Modern Japanese and Siamese Monarchies; Introduction; Semi-Colonial State-Building; Japan Before Meiji; Siam in the Early Nineteenth Century; The Emperor's New Clothes; The King's New Clothes; Class, Costume, and the Meiji State; Class, Costume, and Siamese Absolutism; The Naturalization of Foreign Dress; Summary; Notes
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xx, 365 pages.)
• Subjects: 321.609; History; Monarchy -- History; Kings and rulers -- History; Nationalism -- History; HISTORY / Civilization; HISTORY / Essays; HISTORY / Reference; HISTORY / Social History; Kings and rulers; Monarchy; Nationalism; History -- Europe -- General; History -- Social History; History -- General; Political Science -- History & Theory; European history; Social & cultural history; Colonialism & imperialism; Political science & theory; World history; Imperialism; World politics; History -- World; General & world history; Electronic books; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319505237; 3319505238
• Related ISBNs: 331950522X; 9783319505220
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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