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Global Royal Families explores monarchy as a form of government involving not just a reigning sovereign but royal families linked nationally and internationally; this volume includes how these familial links have played out in cultural, social and diplomatic history.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Robert Aldrich, Cindy McCreery, and Falko Schnicke: Royal Families and Global Monarchies in Modern History: Past Trajectories and New Avenues
- 2: Robert Aldrich: The Globalization of Monarchs and Royal Families, c.1850-1945
- I. Transnational Encounters
- 3: Cindy McCreery: Meeting the Global Royal Family? The Visits of King Kal?kaua of Hawai'i and Princes Albert Victor and George of Britain to Meiji Japan and Johor, 1881-1882
- 4: Nicholas B. Miller: Family Resemblance? Colonialism, Sovereignty, and the Global Royal Family in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i and Johor
- 5: Aglaja Weindl: 'Akin to a flight of locusts': The British and the Challenge of European Royal Travel to India in the Late Nineteenth Century
- 6: Hilary Sapire: 'The Great House across the ocean and . . . the Great Place here': A British-Zulu Royal Encounter and Writing Back to Empire in 1920s South Africa
- 7: Christian Oberländer: The Internationalization of Japan's Symbolic Monarchy: Fifty Years of Diplomacy by the Japanese Emperor (1971-2021)
- 8: Falko Schnicke: Visiting the Republic or Meeting the Princes? The Ambiguous Categories of Royal Diplomacy in Elizabeth II's 1961 State Visit to India
- II. Dynastic Strategies
- 9: Mary T. Duarte: Royal Advice and Reactions: Understanding Gendered Responsibilities in Marriages of the Descendants of Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa
- 10: Susanne Bauer: The Royal Network of Letters: The Transnational Correspondence of the Prussian Queen and German Empress Augusta (1811-1890)
- 11: Aidan Jones: Victorian Royal Marital Diplomacy: Negotiating the 1874 Marriage of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, and the Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna
- 12: Moritz Sorg: Royal Families at War: Transnational Monarchy and the First World War
- III. Royal Networks
- 13: Javier Moreno-Luzón: The Majesty of the Race: The Spanish Royal Family and Latin America, 1892-1931
- 14: Angma Dey Jhala: Prince and 'Primitive': Chakma Raja Bhuvan Mohan Roy on the Crossroads of India, Burma, and Britain
- 15: Charles V. Reed: Global Tourist, Imperial Prince: The Gaekwad of Baroda in Britain and Empire, 1875-1930s
- 16: Priya Mirza: At Home and Abroad: Indian Royal Families in the Twentieth Century (1900-1948)
Summary
Global Royal Families explores monarchy as a form of government involving not just a reigning sovereign but royal families linked nationally and internationally; this volume includes how these familial links have played out in cultural, social and diplomatic history.
