Though the overthrow and exile of Napoleon in 1815 is a familiar episode in modern history, it is not well known that just a few months later, British colonisers toppled and banished the last king in Ceylon. Beginning with that case, this volume examines the deposition and exile of indigenous monarchs by the British and French – with examples in India, Burma, Malaysia, Vietnam, Madagascar, Tunisia and Morocco – from the early nineteenth century down to the eve of decolonisation. It argues that removal of native sovereigns, and sometimes abolition of dynasties, provided a powerful strategy used by colonisers, though European overlords were seldom capable of quelling resistance in the conquered countries, or of effacing the memory of local monarchies and the legacies they left behind.
Robert Aldrich
Banished potentates [EPUB ebook]
Dethroning and exiling indigenous monarchs under British and French colonial rule, 1815–1955
Banished potentates [EPUB ebook]
Dethroning and exiling indigenous monarchs under British and French colonial rule, 1815–1955
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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 328 ● ISBN 9781526113436 ● 文件大小 3.7 MB ● 出版者 Manchester University Press ● 市 Manchester ● 国家 GB ● 发布时间 2017 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 6821725 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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