Royal Heirs in Imperial Germany | Buch

Cover: 9781137551269 | Royal Heirs in Imperial Germany | Frank Lorenz Müller | Buch | xii

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Beschreibung

This book explores the development and viability of Germany¿s sub-national monarchies in the decades before their sudden demise in 1918. It does so by focusing on the men who turned out to be the last ones to inherit the crowns of the country¿s three smaller kingdoms: Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, Prince Friedrich August of Saxony and Prince Wilhelm of Württemberg. Imperial Germany was not a monolithic block, but a motley federation of more than twenty allied regional monarchies, headed by the Kaiser. When the German Reich became a republic at the end of the First World War, all of these kings, grand dukes, dukes and princes were swept away within a fortnight. By examining the lives, experiences and functions of these three men as heirs to the throne during the decades when they prepared themselves for their predestined role as king, this study investigates what the future of the German model of constitutional monarchy looked like before it was so abruptly discarded.

Über den Autor

Frank Lorenz Müller teaches Modern History at the University of St Andrews, UK. He works on nineteenth-century European history and specializes in the history of monarchy. In 2011 he published Our Fritz: Emperor Frederick III and the Political Culture of Imperial Germany. Together with Heidi Mehrkens he has edited Sons and Heirs: Succession and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe (2015) as well as Royal Heirs and the Uses of Soft Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe (2017).

Zusammenfassung

Explores the lives and roles of the last three princes to inherit the crowns of the kingdoms of Bavaria, Saxony and Württemberg.

Examines their experiences and plans as royal heirs in the early twentieth-century.

Argues that the future of Germany's monarchies was not inevitably as bleak as is suggested by their collective demise in 1918.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations.- Acknowledgements.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Symptoms of the "unnaturalness of an institution"? Trials and tribulations on the way to the throne.- 3. "The love of the people ... needs to be acquired." Competence and the paths of monarchical persuasion.- 4. "I and my house feel at one with my people!" Telling the tale of a popular tribal monarchy.- 5. "We do not want to be regarded as lesser brothers" Royal heirs in the German Reich and the challenges of particularism.- 6. "My government will ..." Variations on a future theme.- 7. Conclusion.- Bibliography

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Reihe:	Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy
Inhalt:	xii 257 S. 2 s/w Illustr. 6 farbige Illustr. 257 p. 8 illus. 6 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9781137551269
ISBN-10:	1137551267
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Müller, Frank Lorenz
Auflage:	1st ed. 2017
Hersteller:	Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan UK Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy
Maße:	216 x 153 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Frank Lorenz Müller
Erscheinungsdatum:	03.04.2017
Gewicht:	0,468 kg

Artikel-ID: 108795253