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Miller, Nicholas B. ORCID: 0000-0002-4037-642X (2023). Family Resemblance? Colonialism, Sovereignty, and the Global Royal Family in Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i and Johor. Other.

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Abstract

This is a draft of a chapter that has been accepted for publication by Oxford University Press in the forthcoming book Global Royal Families edited by Robert Aldrich, Cindy McCreery and Falko Schnicke due for publication in 2023-2024. This chapter compares the participation of King Kalākaua of Hawai‘i (1836–91, r. 1874–91) and Abu Bakar, maharaja of Johor (1833–95, r. 1862–95), in global circuits of royal travel during the late nineteenth century. Highlighting the converging backgrounds, social personas, and domestic politics of Kalākaua and Bakar, this essay uses their common pursuit of recognition as members of a coalescing global royal family as a yardstick to survey the fused history of colonialism, state building, and indigenous rule in the late nineteenth century. To study the family resemblance between Kalākaua and Bakar is not merely to probe the margins of the late nineteenth-century global royal family; it is likewise to understand how elective royal kinship radiated domestic and international power. To the extent that this permitted both rulers to navigate challenges to their authority, status within the global royal family was antagonistic to new forms of Western imperial overrule that developed during the late nineteenth century. Research for this essay was completed via a project project funded by Marie Skłodowska- Curie Actions under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme grant agreement No. 889078, MIGKNOW: Migrating Knowledge: The Global Knowledge Networks of German Medic, Botanist and Migration Commissioner Wilhelm Hillebrand in Hawai‘i (1821-1886).

Item Type:	Preprints, Working Papers or Reports (Other)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Miller, Nicholas B. UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-4037-642X UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-704832
Series Name:	Global Royal Families (Oxford University Press), edited by Robert Aldrich, Cindy McCreery and Falko Schnicke
Number of Pages:	31
Date:	2023
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 6: Geschichte > Abteilung für Neuere Geschichte und Neueste Geschichte
Subjects:	Geography and history
Funders:	European Union, Horizon 2020, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Projects:	Migrating Knowledge: The Global Knowledge Networks of German Medic, Botanist and Migration Commissioner Wilhelm Hillebrand in Hawai‘i (1821-1886), MIGKNOW, 889078
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/70483