Binding: Hardcover
Description: This is a ground - breaking 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 consolidate the crown's sacralised status. She looks at how the monarchy engaged with war recruitment bereavement gender norms as well as at its political and military powers and its relationship with Ireland and the empire. She considers the role that monarchism played in military culture and examines royal visits to the front as well as the monarchy's role in home front morale and in interwar war commemoration. Her findings suggest that the rise of republicanism in wartime Britain has been overestimated and that war commemoration was central to the monarchy's revered interwar status up to the abdication crisis.
Title: For King And Country The British Monarchy And The First World War
Author(s): Jones Heather (University College London)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9781108429368
Pages: 320 Pages, Worked Examples Or Exercises
Publication Date: 12/16/2021
Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
Category: Military History