... in English debates and seeking out allies in the colonies. This final chapter looks at how English statesmen and commentators negotiated Scottish and Irish involvement and examines the impact on the fragile structures of a “composite monarchy.” In 1698, the Scottish design to conquer the Isthmus of Panama...

... the pressures to end the military dictatorship. It then highlights Monck's unfailing sense of timing and his careful neutralisation of all opposition which led to the peaceful return of the monarchy. Fleetwood Charles col maj gen ld deputy lt gen Lilburne Robert col maj gen London Monck George maj gen St...

... in Catherine’s day. It considers the two disparate “visions” in Panin’s plan: the ostensible advocacy of a stronger, more efficient autocracy, and the envisioned partnership between the monarchy and the nobility in the imperial council. It also looks at the role of Grigorii Nikolaevich Teplov in drafting...

... with progressive intellectuals such as Nikolai Ivanovich Novikov before discussing his Russian History from Ancient Times. It also explores Shcherbatov’s political outlook on issues ranging from despotism to constitutional monarchy, autocracy, and ideal society. Catherine II Catherine the Great...

...This chapter discusses the different style and image of government after Charles I's execution. The execution of Charles I, and the abolition of monarchy, necessitated not only a new constitution and government but a different style and image, an entirely new form of visual representation. One...

... of these days; though no one proved willing to die for the empire or for the Republic, the politicians took the issue of the form of government rather seriously, for their offices depended upon it. Prime Minister Ouro Preto held on to the belief that only far-reaching reforms could save the monarchy...

... to the fall of the constitutional monarchy in 1889. It tests the hypothesis that the Empire's fiscal policy had been sustainable. The principal features of the Empire’s political-fiscal institutions made its commitment to repay debt credible. These included the authority of the chamber of deputies...

...In 1889 the Republic fundamentally altered the principal characteristics of the political institutions—as well as the commitment to repay debt—established under the constitutional monarchy. This chapter summarizes the key discontinuities, which were evident in the political institutional changes...

... monarchy. It also talks about the English monarchy that was essentially elective in its structure or considered as a free hereditary monarchy. de Grazia Margreta Denmark Hamlet history nature of history play the monarchy elective monarchy free and hereditary Shakespeare William tragedy nature...

...This chapter examines three factors that could be attributed to the survival of monarchy in England. The first of these was the appeal to the notion of the “ancient constitution”—the sacrosanct nature of immemorial customary provisions serving to protect the liberties of individuals imposing...

...This chapter explores Galician governance under bureaucrat officials, focusing on Johann Baptist Anton Count von Pergen (1772–1774) and Joseph Karl von Brigido (1780–1794). Appointed by Empress Maria Theresa of the Habsburg monarchy, Pergen became the first imperial bureaucrat governor of Galicia...

...This chapter explores the relationships between Austrian bureaucrats and Polish aristocrats under the Habsburg monarchy. Austrian bureaucrats initially required proofs of nobility from Poles who migrated to Galicia. This event marked the start of the extensive collaboration between the two...

... of Huguenots assembled in Paris to celebrate Catherine's daughter Marguerite's marriage to the Protestant prince Henry of Navarre. Catherine was integrally connected to the French monarchy for nearly sixty years, but was blamed for this incident and, consequently, remained embedded in Anglo-Protestant...

... on the doings of kings and princes. In an emergently absolutist personal monarchy and during a period in which issues of succession and legitimacy were much on people's minds, plays that were so insistently about kings and queens were also quintessentially political plays. As a great deal of recent work has...

... the Stuart monarchy....

... Englishmen, the English court, and the monarchy to the great continental artists, such as Titian, who had brilliantly fashioned the images of the greatest dynasties of early modern Europe. In the seventeenth century, the baroque arts in portraiture and the classicism long fashionable on the continent...

...This chapter presents a column published on June 6, 1907, that features a letter from a supposed friend in Tehran, as well as Dakhow's reply to it—both of which target the indiscriminate sale of high-sounding titles to personalities, functionaries, or nonentities under the Qajar monarchy. Nominally...

...This chapter discusses how New England almanacs served the interests of British nationalism through preserving the memory of key dates in the British monarchy, and singing the monarchs' praises in poetry. Almanacs, like the newspapers, often helped to promote themes sympathetic to the Protestant...

... the relationship between the Habsburg monarchy and her peoples. She injected a new style of sovereignty into the Imperial house, eliminating the “forbidden zone” that surrounded the person of earlier Habsburg rulers in Vienna. She became truly popular with her subjects. Nearly all vestiges of the Spanish Habsburgs...

... to see the reality of the threats to the existence of the Dual Monarchy, they had allowed the monarchy to become a satellite of a military-dominated Germany. Conrad von Hötzendorf General Chief of General Staff First World War Lovčen mountain Montenegro defeat of 1916 Austrian Navy Corps Franz...