Royal Heirs and the Uses of Soft Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)

1. ‘Winning their Trust and Affection’: Royal Heirs and the Uses of Soft Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe; Frank Lorenz Muller).- PART I: CONDUITS OF COMMUNICATION.- 2. The Royal Shop Window: Royal Heirs and the Monarchy in Post-Risorgimento Italy, 1860?78; Maria-Christina Marchi.- 3. A Visible Presence: Royal Events, Media Images and Popular Spectatorship in Oscarian Sweden; Kristina Widestedt.- 4. Royal Ambassadors: Monarchical Public Diplomacy and the United States; Erik Goldstein).- 5. Ocular Sovereignty, Acclamatory Rulership, and Political Communication: Visits of Princes of Wales to Bengal; Milinda Banerjee).- PART II: PERSUADING SCEPTICAL AUDIENCES.- 6. The Power of Presence: Crafting a Norwegian Identity for the Bernadotte Heirs; Trond Noren Isaksen.- 7. Bertie Prince of Wales: Prince Hal and the Widow of Windsor; Jane Ridley.- 8. Archduke Franz Ferdinand: An Uncharming Prince?; Alma Hannig).- PART III: EMOTIONAL APPEALS.- 9. Dynastic Heritage and Bourgeois Morals: Monarchy and Family in the Nineteenth Century; Monika Wienfort.- 10. The Importance of Looking the Part: Heirs and Male Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century Spain; Richard Meyer Forsting.- 11. How to Fashion thePopularity of the British Monarchy: Alexandra, Princess of Wales and the Attractions of Attire; Imke Polland.- 12. Love, Duty and Diplomacy: The Mixed Response to the 1947 Engagement of Princess Elizabeth; Edward Owens.- PART IV: DYNASTIC IDENTITIES.- 13 A ‘Sporting Hermes’: Crown Prince Constantine and the Ancient Heritage of Modern Greece; Miriam Schneider).- 14. The King as Father, Orangism and the Uses of a Hero: King William I of the Netherlands and the Prince of Orange, 1815-1840; Jeroen Koch.- 15. Narrating Prince Wilhelm of Prussia: Commemorative Biography as Monarchical Politics of Memory; Frederik Frank Sterkenburgh.- 16. How European was Nineteenth-Century Royal Soft Power; Heidi Mehrkens.