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The nineteenth century is notable for its newly proclaimed emperors, from the well-known, such as Napoleon and Queen Victoria, to the lesser known, like Pedro II of Brazil. This book examines how emperors used images, religion, international exhibitions, and pageants to project their ijmperial power.

"This volume assesses the roles played by queens consort in early modern politics. It does so in three ways. First, it analyses the specific forms of influence which they wielded. Second, it posits a new vocabulary with which to conduct that analysis, suggesting that the strict divide between categories of 'hard' and 'soft' power--or 'high' politics (policy, diplomacy, ideology) and cultural influences (making a political impact through the arts)--with which scholars approach the political role of queens is anachronistic in the context of the courts in which they lived and operated. Third, it considers the extent to which the root of consorts' power lay within their dynastic networks"--Provided by publisher

The German reception of the Amazon myths from Hederich to Bachofen / Daria Santini -- Wearing the trousers: the woman warrior as cross-dresser in German literature / Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly -- Women warriors, feminism, and national socialism: the reception of J.J. Bachofen's view of amazons among German and Austrian right-wing women writers / Peter Davies -- Women warriors and the origin of the state: Zacharias Werner's Wanda and Heinrich von Kleist's Penthesilea / Ritchie Robertson -- Germania in armor: the female representation of an endangered German nation / Bettina Brandt -- Terror in Germany 1918-19: visual commentaries on Rosa Luxemburg's assassination / Kathrin Hoffmann-Curtius -- German conceptions of war, masculinity, and femininity in the long nineteenth century / Ute Frevert -- Soldiers and mothers in the German Bundeswehr: constructions of gender and service under arms / Ruth Seifert -- Gender and the military in East Germany: defense policies and the woman question in the GDR / Christine Eifler -- West German representations of women and resistance in Vietnam, 1966-73 / Mererid Puw Davies -- Witch, Amazon, or Joan of Arc? Ulrike meinhof's defenders, or how to legitimize a violent woman / Sarah Colvin