For King and Country : The British Monarchy and the First World War
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
110842936X
ISBN-13
9781108429368
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 23rd, 2021
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
1,052 grams
Dimensions
16.20 x 23.50 x 3.70 cms
Product Classification:
British & Irish history20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000Military history
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This is a ground-breaking history of the British monarchy in the First World War and of the social and cultural functions that monarchism played. It is the first study to fully explore the role of the monarchy during the war and challenges assumptions that the conflict undermined the crown.
This is a ground-breaking history of the British monarchy in the First World War and of the social and cultural functions of monarchism in the British war effort. Heather Jones examines how the conflict changed British cultural attitudes to the monarchy, arguing that the conflict ultimately helped to consolidate the crown''s sacralised status. She looks at how the monarchy engaged with war recruitment, bereavement, gender norms, as well as at its political and military powers and its relationship with Ireland and the empire. She considers the role that monarchism played in military culture and examines royal visits to the front, as well as the monarchy''s role in home front morale and in interwar war commemoration. Her findings suggest that the rise of republicanism in wartime Britain has been overestimated and that war commemoration was central to the monarchy''s revered interwar status up to the abdication crisis.
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