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Mistress of everything : Queen Victoria in indigenous worlds
Mistress of everything examines how indigenous people across Britain's settler colonies engaged with Queen Victoria in their lives and predicaments, incorporated her into their political repertoires, and implicated her as they sought redress for the effects of imperial expansion during her long reign. It draws together empirically rich studies from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Southern Africa, to provide scope for comparative and transnational analysis. The book includes chapters on a Maori visit to Queen Victoria in 1863, meetings between African leaders and the Queen's son Prince Alfred in 1860, gift-giving in the Queen's name on colonial frontiers in Canada and Australia, and Maori women's references to Queen Victoria in support of their own chiefly status and rights.
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Victorian Yankees at Queen Victoria's court
Little seems to have changed since Queen Victoria's day in the instant magnetism of British royalty across the Atlantic Ocean; yet for the first generations liberated by revolution, the British Isles and its sovereigns seemed as remote as the moon. In the young nation, Americans who were little interested in the sons and daughters of their last king, George III, developed a love-hate relationship with Victoria, his granddaughter, that lasted for all her sixty-four years on the throne, ending only with her death in the first weeks of the twentieth century. Victoria's long reign encompassed much of the time in which the young United States was growing up. The responses of Americans toward Victoria reveal not only what they thought of her (and her husband) as a person and a monarch, but reflect their own ambitions, confidence, smugness, insecurities-and sense of loss. Parting from England brought a surge of pride, but it also carried with it an unanticipated price. American encounters with Queen Victoria as person and as symbol evoke the costs of relinquishing a history, a tradition, a ceremonial texture. The brash, bewildered and beguiled Americans in these pages, from lion tamer Isaac Van Amburgh, Barnum's midget \"Tom Thumb\" and sharpshooter Annie Oakley, to literary lions like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain and Henry James evince not only another dimension of the remote woman who might have been their queen, but what Americans were like, and what they thought they were like, in her time.
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An Afghan prince in Victorian England : race, class, and gender in an Afghan-Anglo imperial encounter
\"This is first English account of the diplomatic visit of Afghan Prince Nasr Allah to England in the late nineteenth century. Using both British and Afghan sources and placing the visit in its international and historical context McChesney analyses the agency, motivation and perceptions of the prince towards his hosts and vice versa, including the resistance of the smaller party. He reveals for example that while privately impressed by Britain's military prowess Nasr Allah instructed his colleagues to remain impassive in a successful attempt to frustrate the British. Above all we gain insight into the aims of two asymmetrical yet competing powers and a rare insight into Afghan leaders' attitudes and strategies towards the British Empire\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Contentious Crown: Public Disussion of the British Monarchy in the Reign of Queen Victoria
Morris reviews \"The Contentious Crown: Public Discussion of the British Monarchy in the Reign of Queen Victoria\" by Richard Williams.
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The Contentious Crown: Public Discussion of the British Monarchy in the Reign of Queen Victoria
Bogdanor reviews \"The Contentious Crown: Public Discussion of the British Monarchy in the Reign of Queen Victoria\" by Richard Williams.
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THE INDISPENSABLE CROWN
THE QUEEN, who has reigned for more than one half of the life of the Commonwealth of Australia, seems to be respected, if not admired, even by those who would remove her. The reaction in Melbourne at the Opening Ceremony of the 2006 Commonwealth Games, when the 80,000 or so present joined with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa in singing not only \"Happy Birthday\", but in standing to sing the few bars of the Royal Anthem the censorious organisers permitted, is testimony to that.
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The Contentious Crown: Public Discussion of the British Monarchy in the Reign of Queen Victoria
Kuhn reviews \"The Contentious Crown: Public Discussion of the British Monarchy in the Reign of Queen Victoria\" by Richard Williams.
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