Democratic Royalism

by William M. Kuhn and William Kuhn

In the decades before the First World War no British institution epitomised national identity more forcefully than the monarchy, and no other institution inspired such a universal feeling of loyalty and attachment. The crown reached this position in the half-century after 1861 by giving up its residual political power to a more powerful and more representative House of Commons and transforming itself into a powerfully symbolic institution, by concentrating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312159552
• ISBN13: 9780312159559
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.6" x 5.8"