Title For king and country : the British monarchy and the First World War / Heather Jones, University College London

Edition First edition Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 576 pages) : illustrations Series Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare. 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 Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 24, 2021) Subject Windsor, House of. SUBJECT Windsor, House of fast Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain. Monarchy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General. Kings and rulers Monarchy Politics and government SUBJECT Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- History -- 20th century Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056915 Subject Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021006788 ISBN 9781108554619 110855461X

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