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Banished potentates
2018,2017
Overview
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
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Subject
/ Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
/ France -- Colonies -- Administration
/ France -- Colonies -- History
/ Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration
/ Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
/ HISTORY
/ Imperialism -- History -- 19th century
/ Imperialism -- History -- 20th century
/ Indigenous peoples -- Politics and government
/ Kings and rulers -- Deposition
/ Royalty
ISBN
9781526135315, 9780719099731, 1526135310, 0719099730
