Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 281 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9781526109392
Series Statement:
Studies in Imperialism
Content:
"Royals on Tour explores visits by European monarchs and other members of royal families to overseas colonies, and by indigenous royals from the colonies to Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It presents case studies of travel by royals from Britain, France, Portugal, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium to the overseas possessions (and, in some cases, potential possessions) of their countries, and of visits to Europe by royals from Japan, the Dutch East Indies and French Indochina. It shows how these tours served to project imperial dominion but also to assert the status of non-European dynasties. The celebrity of royal figures, the increased ease of travel with new means of transport such as railways, steamships and aeroplanes, and the avid interest of both the public and the press in these visits make such royal tours key points of encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans, and between colonial masters and the subjects in their possessions. The promotion or criticism of tours and the receptions the visitors received illustrate the often fractious dynamics of empire and international relations. The colourful processions, the anthems and decorations, the speeches and itineraries, official meetings and informal activities formed part of the popular culture of empire and of monarchy. The volume argues that mixed in with the pageantry and protocol were profound questions about the role of monarchs, the practice of imperial governance, the relationships between metropolitan and overseas elites, and evolving expressions of nationalism" --Back cover
Content:
"Royals on Tour" explores visits by European monarchs and princes to colonies, and by indigenous royals to Europe in the 1800s and early 1900s with case studies of travel by royals from Britain, France, Portugal, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Japan, the Dutch East Indies and French Indochina. Such tours projected imperial dominion and asserted the status of non-European dynasties. The celebrity of royals, the increased facility of travel, and the interest of public and press made tours key encounters between Europeans and non-Europeans. The reception visitors received illustrate the dynamics of empire and international relations. Ceremonies, speeches and meetings formed part of the popular culture of empire and monarchy. Mixed in with pageantry and protocol were profound questions about the role of monarchs, imperial governance, relationships between metropolitan and overseas elites, and evolving expressions of nationalism
Note:
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
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-5261-0937-8
Language:
English
Keywords:
Europa
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Herrscher
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Staatsbesuch
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Kolonialismus
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Geschichte 1800-1947
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Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.7765/9781526109392
URL:
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(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
Author information:
Aldrich, Robert 1954-
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