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Travel by European and 'native' monarchs and other royals between Europe, Asia and Africa developed as a new form of personal and international politics in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The pageantry and politics of royal tours during the age of empire provides great insight into modern monarchy, colonialism and transnational cultural encounters.
List of contents
Introduction
1. Empire Tours: Royal travel between colonies and metropoles - Robert Aldrich and Cindy McCreery
2. Royal tour by proxy: The embassy of Sultan Alauddin of Aceh to the Netherlands, 1601-1603 - Jean Gelman Taylor
3. French imperial tours: Napoléon III and Eugénie in Algeria and beyond - Robert Aldrich
4. Something borrowed, something blue: Prince Alfred's precedent in overseas British royal tours, c.1860-1925 - Cindy McCreery
5. Royalty, loyalism, and citizenship in the late nineteenth-century British settler empire - Charles V. Reed
6. The Maharaja of Gondal in Europe in 1883 - Caroline Keen
7. Performing monarchy: The Kaiser and Kaiserin's voyage to the Levant, 1898 - Matthew P. Fitzpatrick
8. Colonial kings in the metropole: The visits to France of King Sisowath (1906) and Emperor Khai Dinh (1922) - Robert Aldrich
9. Tensions of empire and monarchy: The African tour of the Portuguese crown prince in 1907 - Filipa Lowndes Vicente and Inês Vieira Gomes
10. Belgian royals on tour in the Congo (1909-1960) - Guy Vanthemsche
11. Royal symbolism: Crown Prince Hirohito's tour to Europe in 1921 - Elise K. Tipton
12. The Throne behind the Power? Royal tours of 'Africa Italiana' under fascism - Mark Seymour
13. Strained encounters: Royal Indonesian visits to the Dutch court in the early twentieth century - Susie Protschky
14. The 1947 royal tour in Smuts' Raj: South African Indian responses - Hilary Sapire
Index
About the author
Robert Aldrich is Professor of European History at The University of Sydney
Cindy McCreery is Senior Lecturer in History at The University of Sydney
Summary
Travel by European and ‘native’ monarchs and other royals between Europe, Asia and Africa developed as a new form of personal and international politics in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The pageantry and politics of royal tours during the age of empire provides great insight into modern monarchy, colonialism and transnational cultural encounters. -- .
