Father Figures and Faction Leaders. Identification Strategies and Monarchical Imagery among Ordinary Citizens of the Northern and Southern Low Countries (c. 1780-1820)
After his ascension to the throne in 1813, William Frederick was quickly accepted as a father-monarch who united the various factions previously vying for power in the Dutch Republic. When in 1815 the Sovereign Principality of the Netherlands merged with the former Austrian Netherlands to form the United Kingdom, the new Southern subjects were far less inclined to accept William I as father of the nation. So goes the prevailing interpretation in the historiography, based as it is on politically and culturally elite sources. In this article, we investigate how ordinary folk imagined the new mon... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
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Koninklijk Nederlands Historisch Genootschap
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Schlagwörter: | Identity / Continuity / Nationhood From Below / Pauper Letters / William I of the Netherlands |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27588228 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view/6828 |