Empress Eugénie and the arts : politics and visual culture in the nineteenth century / Alison McQueen
Imprint
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011
1 copy under consideration for Fu Ssu-Nien Library.
Descript
xx, 348 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-334) and index
Introduction -- Shaping a nation-state : the politics of piety, charity and education -- Imperial identities: the 'ornament of the throne' -- Collecting an imperial persona : collecting practices and intimate spaces -- International diplomacy and transnationalism -- Family, memory and dynastic nostalgia -- Epilogue
