Crowns and colonies: European monarchies and overseas empires

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Queen Victoria, who also bore the title of Empress of India, had a real and abiding interest in the British Empire, but other European monarchs also ruled over possessions 'beyond the seas'. This collection of original essays explores the connections between monarchy and colonialism, from the old regime empires down to the Commonwealth of today. With case studies drawn from Britain, France, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy, the chapters analyse constitutional questions about the role of the crown in overseas empires, the pomp and pageantry of the monarchy as it transferred to the colonies, and the fate of indigenous sovereigns under European colonial control. The volume, with chapters on North America, Asia, Africa and Australasia, provides new perspectives on colonial history, the governance of empire, and the transnational history of monarchies in modern Europe. Cover Half-title Series information Title page Copyright information Table of contents List of figures List of contributors Acknowledgements 1 European sovereigns and their empires ‘beyond the seas’ British imperial coronations, 1937 and 1953 European monarchs and their overseas empires Colonial and indigenous rulers Royal powers and prerogatives Royals in the colonies Conclusion Notes 2 The British royal family and the colonial empire from the Georgians to Prince George Monarchy and Empire under the Tudors, Stuarts and Georgians Queen Victoria and Britain’s colonies Queen Victoria and indigenous peoples Federating the colonial empire under the British Crown Notes 3 Two Victorias? Prince Alfred, Queen Victoria and Melbourne, 1867–68 Two Victorias? Representing Queen Victoria and Prince Alfred Representing the colony Masculine culture Respectable society The diaries of Curtis Candler and Frederick Standish Masculine and naval bonds Epilogue Conclusion Notes 4 Kaiser Wilhelm II and the limits of the royal prerogative in German South-West Africa The Kaiser’s prerogative power in the colonies Utilising power: the Kaiser and the Herero War The Chancellor and the Kaiser Conclusion Notes 5 Orangists in a red empire: salutations from a Dutch queen’s supporters in a British South Africa Enduring queen of an oneiric empire: Wilhelmina and the dream of South Africa Land, language and Stamverwantschap: heritage and settler identities in text and image Landscapes of the settler-colonial imagination: an Orange South Africa? Crafty subjects: aspirations and agency in women’s oorkonden for a female king Conclusion Acknowledgement Notes 6 Sultans and the House of Orange-Nassau: Indonesian perceptions of power relationships with the Dutch Introduction Sultans and their world Gifts and giving, nineteenth and twentieth centuries Gifts: objects in motion Giving as performance Projection of self: parade and pageantry A note on modern times Conclusion Notes 7 The return of the throne: the repatriation of the Kandyan regalia to Ceylon Colonialism and the conflict of monarchies in Ceylon The capture of the Ceylonese regalia: 1815 The return of the regalia, 1934 The regalia at Independence, 1948 Notes 8 Kingitanga and Crown: New Zealand’s Maori King movement and its relationship with the British monarchy Notes 9 The Maharani of Kutch and courtly life before and after Indian Independence Imperial ruler and subsidiary rajas The Maharani of Kutch Out of purdah Notes 10 Colonies, monarchy, empire and the French ancien régime How did the kings of France seize America?8 Who holds French America? From overseas territories to colonies Conclusion Acknowledgement Notes 11 Napoleon III and France’s colonial expansion: national grandeur, territorial conquests and colonial embellishment, 1852–70 Setting the imperial scene Territorial conquests and a passage to Asia-Pacific Expansion in Africa Misadventure in America Colonial embellishment Conclusion Notes 12 The British, the Hashemites and monarchies in the Middle East The British in the Arabian and Persian Gulf Establishing a monarchy in Iraq A monarch and country in search of a constitution A monarch under control? The prolonged ousting of the British Notes 13 An empire for a kingdom: monarchy and Fascism in the Italian colonies Colonial expansion of the Italian kingdom The Royal House and the colonies in ‘liberal’ Italy The colonial empire, between monarchy and Fascism King Vittorio Emanuele’s tour of Libya Amedeo d’Aosta: a royal in the Fascist empire Conclusion Notes 14 ‘So brave Etruria grew’: dividing the Crown in early colonial New South Wales, 1808–10 Great seals Great Seals and the popular imagination Great Seals in the settler colonies The Great Seal of New South Wales Conclusion Notes 15 A new monarchy for a new commonwealth? Monarchy and the consequences of republican India A giraffe monarchy The Indian challenge The foreign king The settler king The road to 1949: royal embellishments and republican antecedents Titles and limitations A king not a crown Conclusion Notes 16 Waiting to die? The British monarchy in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, 1991–2016 Notes Index