For King and Country: The British Monarchy and the First World War

by Heather Jones and Heather Jones

Book Overview

This is a ground-breaking history of the British monarchy in the First World War and of the social and cultural functions of monarchism in the British war effort. Heather Jones examines how the conflict changed British cultural attitudes to the monarchy, arguing that the conflict ultimately helped to consolidate the crown's sacralised status. She looks at how the monarchy engaged with war recruitment, bereavement, gender norms, as well as at its political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110842936X
• ISBN13: 9781108429368
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.0" x 9.1"