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Transnational histories of the 'royal nation' / Milinda Banerjee, Charlotte Backerra, Cathleen Sarti, editors.

9783319505237 (electronic book)
3319505238 (electronic book)
331950522X
9783319505220

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

English

1 online resource (xx, 365 pages.)

10.1007/978-3-319-50523-7 doi

JC375 .T73 2017

321.609

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 fifteen 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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Palgrave studies in modern monarchy.

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