For king and country : the British monarchy and the First World War /
This is a groundbreaking history of the British monarchy in the First World War and of the social and cultural functions of monarchism in the British war effort. Heather Jones examines how the conflict changed British cultural attitudes to the monarchy, arguing that the conflict ultimately helped to...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2021].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare.
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Table of Contents:
- Monarchist mentalities and British mobilisation, 1914-1916
- Monarchist culture and combatant practices
- The royal body in wartime
- De-sacralisation discourses: challenges to the monarchy's status, 1916-1918
- The monarchy and the armistice: ritualising victory, channelling war grief
- The monarchy's role in sacralising post-war commemoration.