Unsteady crowns : why the world's monarchies are struggling for survival / A.W. Purdue.
By: Purdue, A. W. (A. William) [author.]
.Publisher: Cheltenham : The History Press, 2022Description: 368 pages : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780750999328.Subject(s): Monarchy -- History -- 20th century | Monarchy -- History -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 321.6 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 321.6 PUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Issued | 23/09/2022 | 019184 |
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| 321.1 SAI The patriarchs : how men came to rule / | 321.231 DIG Digital literacy unpacked / | 321.5 MAY Dark money : | 321.6 PUR Unsteady crowns : why the world's monarchies are struggling for survival / | 321.6041 MON The Monarchy : | 321.609 ROU The Routledge history of monarchy / | 321.60902 KAN The King's two bodies : |
Originally published: 2005.
Introduction : the power of kingship -- I. A world fit for kings -- The Far East : celestial empires -- Heirs of the Prophet : monarchy in the Islamic world -- Satraps, vassals and satellites of empire -- The European cousinhood -- II. Some kings departs -- Europe's monarchies and the first world war -- Europe : the survivors -- The successors to the Ottoman Empire : the new monarchies of the Middle East -- The Far East between the wars -- III. A further thinning of the ranks -- Monarchies and the second world war -- Mixed fortunes, 1952-1979 -- IV. Monarchies in the contemporary world -- Anni horribiles -- Europe's 'English situations' -- The Middle and Far East : monarchy and religion -- The perils of celebrity -- Has monarchy a future?