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The Royal Nation in Global Perspective

Cathleen SartiCharlotte BackerraMilinda Banerjee

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GeographyMonarchyPolitical cultureEnvironmental ethicsWorld historyPopular sovereigntyPolitical community

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Adopting transnational and global history methodologies, this book suggests that the relationship between monarchies and nation-state formation has often been a symbiotic one, and that this can only be adequately explained through a global perspective, going beyond the local histories of particular state systems. While the nation-state has been the most influential concept of political community in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, royal dynasties have, however, often provided a centralized administrative-juridical-cultural locus around which a national community has crystallized itself. Monarchic rulerships have played a central role in the emergence of modern nation-states, which forms a crucial, if hitherto inadequately appreciated, aspect of modern global history.

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2017-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50523-7_1