Royal Heirs

Succession and the Future of Monarchy in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av Frank Lorenz Müller, Frank Lorenz Müller, Scotland) Muller, Frank Lorenz (University of St Andrews

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Against the odds, monarchies flourished in nineteenth-century Europe. In an era marked by dramatic change and revolutionary upheaval, Europe's monarchies experienced an unexpected late flowering. Royal Heirs focuses on the roles and personalities of the heirs to the throne from more than a dozen different dynasties that ruled the continent between the French Revolution and the end of the First World War. The book explores how these individuals contributed to the remarkable survival of the crowns they were born to wear. Constitutions, family relationships, education, politics, the media, the need to generate 'soft power' and the militarisation of monarchy all shaped the lives of princes and princesses while they were playing their part to embody and secure the future of monarchy. Ranging from Norway to Spain and from Greece to Britain, Royal Heirs not only paints a vivid picture of a monarchical age, but also explores how such disparate monarchies succeeded in adapting to change and defending their position.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-01-12
Mått158 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt640 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor375
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781316512913

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Frank Lorenz Müller is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews. Between 2012 and 2017, he led a major research project on the role of heirs in nineteenth-century monarchies. His publications include Britain and the German Question (2002), Our Fritz. Emperor Frederick III and the Political Culture of Imperial Germany (2011) and, as co-editor, Royal Heirs and the Uses of Soft Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe (2016). He is founder-editor of the 'Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy'.

Introduction; 1. 'Pledge of a blessed future': royal heirs in the nineteenth century; 2. 'And this comedy that I have to perform before the world': royal heirs as sons and husbands; 3. 'The affair of his people': the education of royal heirs in the nineteenth century; 4. 'Making the Princess known and securing friends for after times': royal heirs in politics, press and the public sphere; 5. 'From my earliest youth the army has been my absolute love': royal heirs and the militarisation of the monarchy; Conclusion; Appendix: List of rulers and heirs.

'Beautifully written and elegantly translated by Rona Johnston, Müller's brilliantly researched study is the first to shift attention from the monarchs themselves to the children who embodied the institution's future. Drawing on prodigious research in many national and regional archives, Müller's analysis captures the European lineaments of monarchy's modern history without losing sight of national and dynastic peculiarities.' Christopher Clark, author of The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914