This book challenges existing accounts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in which political developments are explained in terms of the rise of the nation-state. While monarchies are often portrayed as old-fashioned as things of the past we argue that modern monarchies have been at the centre of nation-construction in many parts of the world. Today, roughly a quarter of states define themselves as monarchies as well as nation-states they are Royal Nations. This is a global phenomenon. This volume interrogates the relationship between royals and their nations with transnational case studies from Asia, Africa, Europe as well as South America. The seventeen contributors discuss concepts and structures, visual and performative representations, and memory cultures of modern monarchies in relation to rising nationalist movements. This book thereby analyses the worldwide significance of the Royal Nation.
Acknowledgements.- Foreword; Thomas Maissen, Barbara Mittler and Gita Dharampal-Frick.- List of Figures.- List of Contributors.- Chapter 1: The Royal Nation in Global Perspective; Charlotte Backerra, Milinda Banerjee, and Cathleen Sarti.- PART I: CONCEPTUALIZING THE ROYAL NATION.- Chapter 2: The Royal Nation and Global Intellectual History: Monarchic Routes to Conceptualizing National Unity; Milinda Banerjee.- Chapter 3: Resilient in Adversity: The Monarchical State in Prussia and Sardinia-Piedmont, 1847-51; Amerigo Carus0.- Chapter 4: Nepalese Monarchy in an Age of Codification: Kingship, Patriotism, and Legality in the Nepalese Code of 1854; Simon Cubelic and Rajan Khatiwoda.- Chapter 5: Loss of Control: Kaiser Wilhelm II, Mass Media and the National Identity of the Second German Reich; Martin Kohlrausch.- Chapter 6: The Comparative Endurance and Legacy of Moroccos Royal Nation; David Mednicoff.- PART II: VISUALISING AND PERFORMING THElcé
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