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Informationen zum Autor Robert Aldrich is Professor of European History at the University of Sydney Cindy McCreery is Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Sydney Klappentext Explores the multiple connections between European monarchs and their overseas colonies Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 European sovereigns and their empires 'beyond the seas' - Robert Aldrich and Cindy McCreery2 The British royal family and the colonial empire from the Georgians to Prince George - Miles Taylor3 Two Victorias? Prince Alfred, Queen Victoria and Melbourne, 1867-68 - Cindy McCreery4 Kaiser Wilhelm II and the limits of the royal prerogative in German South-West Africa - Matthew P. Fitzpatrick5 Orangists in a red empire: salutations from a Dutch queen's supporters in a British South Africa - Susie Protschky6 Sultans and the House of Orange-Nassau: Indonesian perceptions of power relationships with the Dutch - Jean Gelman Taylor7 The return of the throne: the repatriation of the Kandyan regalia to Ceylon - Robert Aldrich8 Kingitanga and Crown: New Zealand's Maori King movement and its relationship with the British monarchy - Vincent O'Malley9 The Maharani of Kutch and courtly life before and after Indian independence - Jim Masselos10 Colonies, monarchy, empire and the French ancien régime - François-Joseph Ruggiu11 Napoleon III and France's colonial expansion: national grandeur, territorial conquests and colonial embellishment, 1852-70 - Emmanuelle Guenot12 The British, the Hashemites and monarchies in the Middle East - Matthieu Rey13 An empire for a kingdom: monarchy and Fascism in the Italian colonies - Alessandro Pes14 'So brave Etruria grew': dividing the Crown in early colonial New South Wales, 1808-10 - Bruce Baskerville15 A new monarchy for a new commonwealth? Monarchy and the consequences of republican India - Harshan Kumarasingham16 Waiting to die? The British monarchy in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, 1991-2015 - Mark McKennaIndex...
