Royals on tour : politics, pageantry and colonialism / edited by Robert Aldrich and Cindy McCreery.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aldrich, Robert, 1954- editor.

McCreery, Cindy, 1968- editor.

Series:

Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)

Studies in imperialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visits of state--History--19th century.

Visits of state.

Visits of state--History--20th century.

Kings and rulers--Travel--History--19th century.

Kings and rulers.

Kings and rulers--Travel--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 281 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Travel by European and 'native' monarchs and other royals between Europe, Asia and Africa developed as a new form of personal and international politics in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The pageantry and politics of royal tours during the age of empire provides great insight into modern monarchy, colonialism and transnational cultural encounters.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Empire Tours: Royal travel between colonies and metropoles

Robert Aldrich and Cindy McCreery

2. Royal tour by proxy: The embassy of Sultan Alauddin of Aceh to the Netherlands, 1601-1603

Jean Gelman Taylor

3. French imperial tours: Napoléon III and Eugénie in Algeria and beyond

Robert Aldrich

4. Something borrowed, something blue: Prince Alfred's precedent in overseas British royal tours, c.1860-1925

Cindy McCreery

5. Royalty, loyalism, and citizenship in the late nineteenth-century British settler empire

Charles V. Reed

6. The Maharaja of Gondal in Europe in 1883

Caroline Keen

7. Performing monarchy: The Kaiser and Kaiserin's voyage to the Levant, 1898

Matthew P. Fitzpatrick

8. Colonial kings in the metropole: The visits to France of King Sisowath (1906) and Emperor Khai Dinh (1922)

9. Tensions of empire and monarchy: The African tour of the Portuguese crown prince in 1907

Filipa Lowndes Vicente and Inês Vieira Gomes

10. Belgian royals on tour in the Congo (1909-1960)

Guy Vanthemsche

11. Royal symbolism: Crown Prince Hirohito's tour to Europe in 1921

Elise K. Tipton

12. The Throne behind the Power? Royal tours of 'Africa Italiana' under fascism

Mark Seymour

13. Strained encounters: Royal Indonesian visits to the Dutch court in the early twentieth century

Susie Protschky

14. The 1947 royal tour in Smuts' Raj: South African Indian responses

Hilary Sapire

Index.

Notes:

In-house editor: Emma Brennan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 19, 2026).

ISBN:

1-5261-0938-7

1-5261-0939-5

OCLC:

1164781889