{"id":445,"date":"2014-01-07T20:28:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T07:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/?p=445"},"modified":"2014-01-07T20:28:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T07:28:55","slug":"crowns-and-colonies-monarchies-and-colonial-empires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/crowns-and-colonies-monarchies-and-colonial-empires\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowns and Colonies: Monarchies and Colonial Empires"},"content":{"rendered":"

An international conference convened by\u00a0Robert Aldrich<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Cindy McCreery<\/a><\/p>\n

With a keynote address by Professor Miles Taylor, Director of the Institute for Historical Research, University of London, on Queen Victoria and India<\/em><\/p>\n

Department of History,
\nSchool of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry
\nUniversity of Sydney
\n11-13 June 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

From the time of Alexander the Great and the Roman Caesars down to the empire of Queen Victoria and beyond, monarchism and imperialism have often been linked \u2013 indeed, republican colonial empires have been notable exceptions in international history. Napoleon III dreamed of constructing an \u2018Arab kingdom\u2019, Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India, King Leopold created his own realm the Congo, and Italy\u2019s King Victor Emmanuel III was named Emperor of Ethiopia. Even today the Commonwealth of Nations is bound together by the figure of the British monarch, and the Danish queen reigns over Greenland and the Faeroe Islands.<\/p>\n

Outside of Europe, as well, monarchs ruled over disparate peoples, their hereditary and often sacred positions bringing together under a crown the empires of China, Japan, the Ottoman state and several pre-colonial African empires. Non-Western monarchs \u2013 Zulu chieftains, Indian maharajahs, Emperor Haile Selassie, the king of Korea among others \u2013 were themselves often displaced by imperial conquest. Nationalist movements sometimes campaigned for the restoration of dynasties, at other times for abandonment of \u2018feudal\u2019 rule.<\/p>\n

This international conference, and a proposed collection of essays commissioned from participants, explores the links between crowned rulers and their colonial possessions. Paper proposals are invited on any historical period or region.<\/p>\n

Themes may include but are not limited to:<\/p>\n