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Banished Potentates

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

Banished Potentates

By Robert Aldrich

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About the book

Though the overthrow and exile of Napoleon in 1815 is a familiar episode in modern history, it is not well known that just a few months later, British colonisers toppled and banished the last king in Ceylon. Beginning with that case, this volume examines the deposition and exile of indigenous monarchs by the British and French - with examples in India, Burma, Malaysia, Vietnam, Madagascar, Tunisia and Morocco - from the early nineteenth century down to the eve of decolonisation. It argues that r...Show more

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9780719099731

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published year

2017

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1

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Banished Potentates

Format

Hardcover

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