04509nam a22005415i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001300172072001700185072002300202072001600225100008400241245012500325250001800450264008500468300004300553336002600596337002600622338003600648347002400684490006100708505042700769520212601196650002403322650003503346650002803381650002703409650003403436650004003470650004303510650002803553650003003581650002903611710003403640773002603674776003603700776003603736776003603772830006803808856004603876912001403922912001403936999001703950978-3-031-63292-1DE-He21320251030113255.0cr nn 008mamaa241101s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830316329219978-3-031-63292-17 a10.1007/978-3-031-63292-12doi 4aJV61-152 7aHBTQ2bicssc 7aHIS0000002bisacsh 7aNHTQ2thema1 aSapire, Hilary.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut98693010aBritish Royal Visits and Black Loyalism in Twentieth-century Southern Africah[electronic resource] /cby Hilary Sapire.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer International Publishing :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXX, 372 p. 25 illus.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aCambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies,x2635-16410 a1. Introduction: The Crown Illuminates -- 2. 'Benighted in the Bright Noon-Day Sun': 'Bantu Loyalty' and its Discontents, 1919-1939 -- 3. ‘Great Imperial Mission’: The View from the Train, February to April 1947 -- 4. In 'Smuts’ Raj': Indian Moderates and Monarchy -- 5. ‘A Sign Prophetic’: Cities, AmaRespectables and the Royal Visit of 1947 -- 6. 'The Country is Thundering': We Hail the King -- 7. Conclusion.  aExploring the entwined histories of British royal visits to Southern Africa in the twentieth century, this book analyses the clashing voices of dissent and cheering crowds that accompanied royal tours, providing insight into the shifting nature of ‘Black loyalism.’ Originating in the Indigenous empire loyalism of eighteenth-century Canada, Black loyalism encompassed loyalty to the British crown and a shared ideology of ‘rights and ‘entitlements,’ which positioned the crown as a source of protection against white settler rapacity, colonial violence, and racial oppression. However, expressions of monarchical devotion were often double-edged and addressed the fundamental contradiction of a crown that was both the source of rights and complicit in colonial conquest, appropriation, and misrule. It was on royal occasions such as jubilees, coronation celebrations, and especially royal visits, when the sovereign was literally amongst their more distant subjects, that loyalist sentiment was rekindled, reinvented, and made directly relevant to the concerns of the day. By analysing change and continuity in Black perspectives towards both the British and Indigenous African monarchy during these visits, this book offers a fruitful way into examining an array of Black Southern African discourses on governance, political values, and cultural identities across the region. It argues that the refashioning of British imperial monarchy in the twentieth century was profoundly shaped by African initiatives and re-imaginings, and provides valuable reading for those researching imperialism, popular attitudes to the British monarchy in the twentieth century, and the diverse politics and identities of southern Africa. Hilary Sapire is a historian of Southern Africa based in the School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, where she teachers global, imperial and African History. She has published books and articles on Southern African history, including Southern African Liberation Struggles: New Local, Regional and Global Perspectives (2012), co-edited with Chris Saunders. 0aImperialism.945663 0aGreat BritainxHistory.966701 0aAfricaxHistory.971617 0aWorld politics.958105 0aCivilizationxHistory.96678814aImperialism and Colonialism.97122824aHistory of Britain and Ireland.96670324aAfrican History.97161924aPolitical History.96781724aCultural History.9667902 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303163291408iPrinted edition:z978303163293808iPrinted edition:z9783031632945 0aCambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies,x2635-164197334940uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63292-1  aZDB-2-HTY  aZDB-2-SXH  c64662d64662