Royal Heirs and the Uses of Soft Power in Nineteenth-Cent...
Müller, Frank Lorenz / Mehrkens, Heidi
This volume brings together a fascinating selection of studies exploring the soft power tools used by heirs to the throne in order to enhance the communication of monarchies with their audiences during the nineteenth-century. How we perceive royals and their dynasties today – as families, as celebrities, as charitable figureheads of society or as superfluous relics of a bygone age – has deep roots in the monarchical cultures of nineteenth-cent...