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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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A Diplomatic Meeting
Drawing on a host of recently declassified documents from the
Reagan-Thatcher years, A Diplomatic Meeting: Reagan, Thatcher,
and the Art of Summitry provides an innovative framework for
understanding the development and nature of the special
relationship between British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and
American president Ronald Reagan, who were known as \"political
soulmates.\" James Cooper boldly challenges the popular conflation
of the leaders' platforms, and proposes that Reagan and Thatcher's
summitry highlighted unique features of domestic policy in their
respective countries. Summits, therefore, were a significant
opportunity for the two world leaders to further their own domestic
agendas. Cooper uses the relationship between Reagan and Thatcher
to demonstrate that summitry politics transcended any distinction
between foreign policy and domestic politics-a major objective of
Reagan and Thatcher as they sought to consolidate power and
implement their domestic economic programs in a parallel quest to
reverse notions of their countries' \"decline.\"
This unique and significant study about the making of the
Reagan-Thatcher relationship uses their key meetings as an avenue
to explore the fluidity between the domestic and international
spheres, a perspective that is underappreciated in existing
interpretations of the leaders' relationship and Anglo-American
relations and, more broadly, in the field of international
affairs.
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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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Elizabethan Triumphal Processions
Until now, scholarly analysis of Elizabethan processions has always regarded them as having been successful in their function as propaganda, and has always found them to have effectively 'won over' the common people - that group of the population at whom they were chiefly aimed. Both her Royal entries and progresses were regarded as effective public relations exercises, the population gaining access to the Queen and thus being encouraged to remain loyal subjects. This book represents a new approach to this subject by investigating whether this was actually the case - that is, whether the common people were actually won over by these spectacular rituals. By examining original documents that have thus far been ignored, as well as re-examining others from the perspective of the common people, the book casts a new light on Elizabethan processions.
Contents: Introduction: 'Triumphal processions'; Theorising processions; 'Her spiritual, mystical, transforming power': Elizabeth on procession and the common audience; 'Tyme hath brought me hether': readings of Elizabeth on procession; Conclusion: 'The true picture of the past flits by': re-reading a procession painting; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
William Leahy is Director of Studies in the Department of English at Brunel University, UK.
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The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I
More than any other English monarch before or since, Queen Elizabeth I used her annual progresses to shape her royal persona and to bolster her popularity and authority. During the spring and summer, accompanied by her court, Elizabeth toured southern England, the Midlands, and parts of the West Country, staying with private and civic hosts, and at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The progresses provided hosts with unique opportunities to impress and influence the Queen, and became occasions for magnificent and ingenious entertainments and pageants, drawing on the skills of architects, artists, and craftsmen, as well as dramatic performances, formal orations, poetic recitations, parades, masques, dances, and bear baiting. This book includes chapters which examine some of the principal Elizabethan progress entertainments, including the coronation pageant Veritas temporis filia (1559), Kenilworth (1575), Norwich (1578), Cowdray (1591), Bisham (1592), and Harefield (1602), while other chapters consider the themes raised by these events, including the ritual of gift-giving; the conduct of government whilst on progress; the significance of the visual arts in the entertainments; regional identity and militarism; elite and learned women as hosts; the circulation and publication of entertainment and pageant texts; the afterlife of the Elizabethan progresses, including their reappropriation in Caroline England and the documenting of Elizabeth's reign by late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century antiquarians such as John Nichols, who went on to compile the monumental The Progresses of Queen Elizabeth (1788–1823).
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Elizabeth I
A study of Elizabeth I which focuses on her difficulty in building up power in a patriarchal society. The author uses literary and historical examination of three crises in her reign to trace the queen's struggle to retain control over the iconography of both her physical self and her political domain.
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“Plesures in lernyng” and the Politics of Counsel in Early Elizabethan England
This essay provides a close contextual analysis of Elizabeth I's visits to Cambridge in 1564 and Oxford in 1566. Getting beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries, it reconstructs the polemical pitches of all manner of scholarly exercises—plays, sermons, orations, and academic disputations. At the forefront of national politics, religion and the succession dominated the two royal visits, their often‐provocative treatment revealing tensions within the universities and the Elizabethan regime. In 1566, Oxford made a more reformed and orthodox showing than Cambridge two years earlier, even though Cambridge, fount of the evangelical movement, had less distance to travel. Both visits illustrate the degree to which the councillors and courtiers hoped to use the suasive powers of the universities to manage the young Queen and her policies. Yet far from a scene of one‐way traffic in advice dispensation, such occasions also helped forge closer links between the country's political, clerical, and intellectual elites. [P.K.]
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Watch President Trump’s full remarks at British state dinner
At a state dinner on June 3, President Trump paid tribute to the U.S.-British alliance during World War II.
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