Our Pet Queen
A New Perspective on Monarchy
In the modern, democratic twenty-first century, the notion of an unelected, dynastic monarchy is not easy to defend.This new book argues that the current monarchy is by far the best system for choosing a Head of State - providing that it is understood that we are not subjects and that the monarchy are not our superiors. They are, in actual fact, our pets. In this original eBook, John Higgs, author of the The 20th Century: An Alternative History, makes an argument in favour of the monarchy that will annoy royalists even more than it will annoy republicans. This is a tongue-in-cheek, witty examination of the persistence of monarchy in the m…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7710-3845-7
- EAN: 9780771038457
- Produktnummer: 16681961
- Verlag: McClelland & Stewart
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 57 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'846 KB
Über den Autor
JOHN HIGGS is the author of The 20th Century: An Alternative History (2015). His previous books include The Brandy of the Damned, I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary, and The KLF: Chaos, Magic, and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds. He also makes animation and has directed and produced over 100 episodes of pre-school British TV in the last five years, which allows him to spend his days thinking like a four-year-old. He was raised in Wales, which explains a lot, but can now usually be found in Brighton, England, where he lives with his wife and their two children.
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