Sons and Heirs [electronic resource] : Succession and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe /
Mehrkens, Heidi.editor.
Müller, Frank Lorenz.editor.
Bringing together an international team of specialists, this volume considers the place of royal heirs within their families, their education and accommodation, their ability to overcome succession crises, the consequences of the death of an heir and finally the roles royal heirs played during the First World War. .
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Stabilizing a 'Great Historic System'? Royal Heirs and Succession in the Nineteenth Century; Frank Lorenz Müller -- PART I: DYNASTIES AS ROYAL FAMILIES -- 2. Fathers and Sons in the History of the Hohenzollern Dynasty; Christopher Clark -- 3. Heirs and their Wives: Setting the Scene for Umbertian Italy; Axel Körner -- 4. Heirs Before the Altar: Hohenzollern Marriages in a Bourgeois Age; Daniel Schönpflug -- PART II: COURTLY CONTEXTS -- 5. Education and the Rituals of Monarchy in the Kingdom of Württemberg; Eberhard Fritz -- 6. Travels With a Camera: The Prince of Wales, Photography and the Mobile Court; Sophie Gordon -- 7. The Spatial and Architectural Presence of Heirs to the Throne: The Apartments of the Habsburg Crown Princes in the Viennese Hofburg in the Long Nineteenth Century; Richard Kurdiovsky -- PART III: OVERCOMING SUCCESSION CRISES -- 8. Domesticating a German Heir to the Danish Throne; Jes Fabricius Møller -- 9. The Succession of an Unborn King: Constitutional Politics in Spain After the Death of Alfonso XII; Carmina López Sánchez -- 10. An Italian Heir for the New Century: Victor Emmanuel, Prince of Naples; Valentina Villa -- PART IV: THE IMPACT OF DYNASTIC DEATHS -- 11. 1834 - 1869 - 1891: The Untimely Deaths of Three Heirs to the Belgian Throne; Christoph de Spiegeleer -- 12. The Impossible Task of Replacing a Model Heir: The Death of Ferdinand-Philippe D'orle;ans and the 'New France'; Heidi Mehrkens -- 13. The Opposition of the Archdukes: Rudolf, Franz Ferdinand and the Late Habsburg Monarchy; Günther Kronenbitter -- PART V: HEIRS IN THE GREAT WAR -- 14. A Prince in the Trenches? Edward VIII and the First World War; Heather Jones -- 15. Wilhelm's War: A Hohenzollern in Conflict 1914-18; Katharine Anne Lerman -- 16. Germany's Ersatz Kaiser? The Political Opportunities of Max von Baden: Royal Heir and Imperial Chancellor; Lothar Machtan.
Bringing together an international team of specialists, this volume considers the place of royal heirs within their families, their education and accommodation, their ability to overcome succession crises, the consequences of the death of an heir and finally the roles royal heirs played during the First World War. .
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