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Banished potentates
Robert Aldrich
其他書名
Dethroning and exiling indigenous monarchs under British and French colonial rule, 1815–1955
出版Manchester University Press, 2017-12-27
主題History / CivilizationPolitical Science / Colonialism & Post-ColonialismBiography & Autobiography / RoyaltyPolitical Science / GeneralHistory / World
ISBN15261134309781526113436
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3nC5DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Though the overthrow and exile of Napoleon in 1815 is a familiar episode in modern history, it is not well known that just a few months later, British colonisers toppled and banished the last king in Ceylon. Beginning with that case, this volume examines the deposition and exile of indigenous monarchs by the British and French – with examples in India, Burma, Malaysia, Vietnam, Madagascar, Tunisia and Morocco – from the early nineteenth century down to the eve of decolonisation. It argues that removal of native sovereigns, and sometimes abolition of dynasties, provided a powerful strategy used by colonisers, though European overlords were seldom capable of quelling resistance in the conquered countries, or of effacing the memory of local monarchies and the legacies they left behind.