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Sons and Heirs

Succession and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe

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Editors:
  1. Frank Lorenz Müller

    1. University of St Andrews, UK

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  2. Heidi Mehrkens

    1. University of St Andrews, UK

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy (PSMM)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Stabilizing a ‘Great Historic System’ in the Nineteenth Century? Royal Heirs and Succession in an Age of Monarchy

    1. Stabilizing a ‘Great Historic System’ in the Nineteenth Century? Royal Heirs and Succession in an Age of Monarchy

      • Frank Lorenz Müller
      Pages 1-16

  3. Dynasties as Royal Families

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Fathers and Sons in the History of the Hohenzollern Dynasty

      • Christopher Clark
      Pages 19-37

    3. Heirs and Their Wives: Setting the Scene for Umbertian Italy

      • Axel Körner
      Pages 38-52

    4. Heirs before the Altar: Hohenzollern Marriages in a Bourgeois Age

      • Daniel Schönpflug
      Pages 53-71

  5. Overcoming Succession Crises

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Domesticating a German Heir to the Danish Throne

      • Jes Fabricius Møller
      Pages 129-146

    3. The Succession of an Unborn King: Constitutional Politics in Spain after the Death of Alfonso XII

      • Carmina López Sánchez
      Pages 147-159

    4. An Italian Heir for the New Century: Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples

      • Valentina Villa
      Pages 160-175

  7. Heirs in the Great War

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227
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    2. A Prince in the Trenches? Edward VIII and the First World War

      • Heather Jones
      Pages 229-246
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Bringing together an international team of specialists, this volume considers the place of royal heirs within their families, their education and accommodation, their ability to overcome succession crises, the consequences of the death of an heir and finally the roles royal heirs played during the First World War.   

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of St Andrews, UK

    Frank Lorenz Müller, Heidi Mehrkens

About the editors

Lothar Machtan, University of Bremen, Germany Katharine Anne Lerman, London Metropolitan University, UK Heather Jones, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Günther Kronenbitter, University of Augsburg, Germany Christoph de Spiegeleer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Valentina Villa, Catholic University of Milan, Italy Carmina López Sánchez, Carlos III University, Spain Jes Fabricius Møller, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Richard Kurdiovsky, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria Sophie Gordon, Royal Collection Trust, UK Eberhard Fritz, Altshausen Castle Archives, Germany Daniel Schönpflug, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany Axel Körner, University College London, UK Christopher Clark, University of Cambridge, UK  

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