Banished Potentates: Dethroning and Exiling Indigenous Monarchs Under British and French Colonial Rule, 1815-1955

by Robert Aldrich

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1526151669

ISBN13:9781526151667

Release Date:September 2020

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Length:328 Pages

Weight:1.01 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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