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Star-Spangled Crown Extended Bilbiography

GENERAL PRINCIPLES 

Thomas B. Allsen
The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006

  

Janos Bak, ed.
Coronations: Medieval and Early Modern Monarchic Ritual
Berkeley: University of California, 1990

  

Marc Bloch
The Royal Touch: Monarchy and Miracles in France and England
New York: Dorset Press, 1990

  

Geoffrey Bocca
Kings Without Thrones - European Monarchy in the Twentieth Century
New York: Dial Press, 1959

  

Christophe Buffin de Chosal
La Fin de la Democratie
Cadillac: Editions Saint Remi, 2014
(Buy English translation here)

  

Rev. Edward Cahill, S.J.
The Framework of a Christian State: An Introduction to Social Science
Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son, Ltd., 1932

  

David Cannadine and Simon Price, eds.
Rituals of Royalty: Power and Ceremonial in Traditional Societies
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987

  

Rene, Viscount de Chateaubriand, Charles I. White, Trans.
The Genius of Christianity
Baltimore: John Murphy and Co., 1971

  

Ralph Adams Cram
The End of Democracy
Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1937

  

Ralph Adams Cram
Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh
Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1919

  

Ralph Adams Cram
“Invitation to Monarchy”
The American Mercury
April 1936, pp. 479-486

  

Ralph Adams Cram
Towards the Great Peace
Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1922

  

Walter J.P. Curley
Monarchs-in-Waiting
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1973

  

Joseph de Maistre, Rev. Aeneas
The Pope, Considered in His Relations with the Church: Temporal Sovereignties, Separated Churches, and the Cause of Civilization
London: C. Dolman, 1850

  

Kenelm Digby
The Broad Stone of Honour; or, the true sense and practice of chivalry
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1876, 5 vols.

  

Kenelm Digby
Mores Catholici, or, Ages of Faith
New York: P. O’Shea, 1888, 4 ols.

  

T.S. Eliot
Christianity and Culture
New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1949

  

Rev. Denis Fahey
The Mystical Body of Christ and the Reorganisation of Society
Cork: The Forum Press, 1945

  

Rev. Denis Fahey
The Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern World
Dublin: Browne and Noland, 1949

  

Charles Fenyvesi
Splendor in Exile
New York: New Republic Books, 1979

  

John Neville Figgis
The Divine Right of Kings
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1914

  

Leon Gautier, Henry Frith, Trans.
Chivalry
London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1891

  

Jean Hani, Gustavo Polit, trans.
Sacred Royalty: From the Pharaoh to the Most Christian King
London: The Matheson Trust, 2011

  

Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds.
The Invention of Tradition
Cambridge: University of Cambridge Books, 21012

  

Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Democracy--The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order
Livingston, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2002

  

Ernst Kantorowicz
The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957

  

Arthur Machen
Dr. Stiggins; his views and principles, a series of interviews
London, Francis Griffiths, 1906

  

Philip Mansel
Pillars of Monarchy: An Outline of the Political and Social History of Royal Guards 1400-1984
London: Quartet Books, 1984

  

Philip Mansel and Torsten Riotte, eds.
Monarchy and Exile: The Politics of Legitimacy from Marie de Médicis to Wilhelm II
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

  

Bela Menczer
Catholic Political Thought 1789-1848
South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 1962

  

Thomas Molnar
The Counter Revolution
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1969

  

Paul Kleber Monod
The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe, 1589-1715
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999

  

Fr. Aidan Nichols, O.P.
Christendom Awake: On Re-Energizing the Church in Culture
Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1999

  

Novalis, Margaret Mahony Stoljar, Ed./Trans.
Novalis: Philosophical Writings
New York: SUNY Press, 1997

  

Francis Oakley
Kingship: The Politics of Enchantment
Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006

  

John Weir Perry
Lord of the Four Quarters: The Mythology of Kingship
New York: Paulist Press, 1991

  

Gary Potter
In Reaction
Long Prairie, MN: The Neumann Press, 1991

  

Christopher Scarf
The Ideal of Kingship in the Writings of Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien
Cambridge: James Clarke & Co

  

Charles Hitchcock Sherrill
The Purple or the Red
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1924

  

Vladimir Solovyev. Herbert Rees, Trans.
Russia and the Universal Church
London: The Centenary Press, 1948

  

Vladimir Solovyev, Alexander Bakshy, Trans.
War, Progress, and the End of History
London: University of London Press, 1915

  

W. M. Spellman
Monarchies 1000-2000
London: Reaktion Books – Globalities, 2012

  

R. McNair Wilson
Monarchy or Money Power
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode Ltd. , 1933

 

AMERICA

Thomas B. Allen
Tories: Fighting for the King in America’s First Civil War
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2010

  

David Arias
Spanish Roots of America
Huntington: Our Sunday Visitor, 1992

  

Bernard Bailyn
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992

  

Bernard Bailyn
The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974

  

Herbert Eugene Bolton
The Spanish Borderlands: A Chronicle of Old Florida and the Southwest
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1921

  

Wallace Brown
The Good Americans: Loyalists in the American Revolution
New York: Morrow, 1969

  

William John Eccles
The French in North America, 1500-1783
East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1998

  

David Hackett Fischer
Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989

  

Sydney George Fisher
True History of the American Revolution
Philadelphia: J.B.Lippincott Company, 1912

  

Norman Gelb
Less Than Glory
New York: G.P. Putnam and Sons, 1984

  

Evarts Boutell Greene
The Provincial Governor in the English Colonies of North America
London: Longmans, Green, 1907

  

Christopher Hollis
The American Heresy
New York: Minton, Balch, and Company, 1930

  

Maya Jasanoff
Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
New York: Vintage Books, 2012

  

Russell Kirk
America’s British Culture
New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1993

  

Leonard Woods Labaree
Royal Government in America: A Study of the British Colonial System Before 1783
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930

  

David S. Lovejoy
The Glorious Revolution in America
Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1987

  

Eric Nelson
The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014

  

Kevin Phillips
The Cousins’ Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America
New York: Basic Books, 1999

  

Frank Prochaska
The Eagle and the Crown: Americans and the British Monarchy
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008

  

Egerton Ryerson
The Loyalists of America and Their Times: From 1620 to 1816
Toronto: William Briggs, 1880

  

Jack M. Sosin
English America and the Restoration Monarchy of Charles II: Trans-Atlantic Politics, Commerce, and Kinship
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1980

  

Jack M. Sosin
English America and the Revolution of 1688: royal administration and the structure of provincial government
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982

  

Lorenzo Sabine
Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1864

  

Jack M. Sosin
English America and Imperial Inconstancy: The Rise of Provincial Autonomy, 1696-1715
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985

  

James H. Stark
The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the Revolution
Boston: James H. Stark, 1910

  

Sheldon Vanauken
The Glittering Illusion: English Sympathy for the Southern Confederacy
Washington: Regnery Gateway, 1989

  

Carlos B. Vega
Our Hispanic Roots: What History Failed to Tell Us
Santa Maria: Janaway Publishing, 2013

  

Gordon S. Wood
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
New York: Vintage Books, 1993

 

CANADA

Arthur Bousfield and Garry Toffoli
Royal Observations: Canadians and Royalty
Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1991

  

Ron Dart
The North American High Tory Tradition
New York: American Anglican Press, 2016

  

John Farthing
Freedom Wears a Crown
Toronto: Kingswood House, 1957

  

Eugene Forsey
The Royal Power of Dissolution in the British Commonwealth
Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1938

  

George Grant
Lament for a Nation
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1965

  

Msgr. Lionel Groulx
Chez nos ancêtres
Montréal: Bibliothèque de l'Action Française. 1920

  

Msgr. Lionel Groulx
Notre maître, le passé
Montreal: Bibliothèque de l'Action Française, 1924

  

Bishop Louis-François Laflèche
Quelques considérations sur les rapports de la société civile avec la religion et la famille
Montreal: Eusebe Senecal, 1866

  

Christopher Moore
The Loyalists: Revolution, Exile, Settlement
Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1989

  

W.L. Morton
The Kingdom of Canada
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1969

  

J.E. Rea
Bishop Alexander Macdonell and the politics of Upper Canada
Toronto: Ontario Historical Society, 1974

  

Thomas Stamp
Kings, Queens, and Canadians: A celebration of Canada's infatuation with the British Royal Family
Markham, ON: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1987

  

Mason Wade
The French Canadians 1760-1945
New York: Macmillan, 1955

 

AUSTRALIA

Herbert Vere Evatt
The King and His Dominion Governors: A Study of the Reserve Powers of the Crown in Great Britain and the Dominions
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1936

  

Nigel Greenwood
For the Sovereignty of the People: A Conversation with Niccolò's Ghost and a Defence of the Crown in the Westminster System
Samford Valley QLD: Australian Academic Press, 1999

  

David Hill
Australia and the Monarchy
Melbourne: Penguin Books Australia, 2015

  

Sir John Kerr
Matters for Judgment
Sydney: Palgrave Macmillan, 1979

  

Nevil Shute
In the Wet
London: Penguin, 1953

  

Twomey, Anne
The Chameleon Crown: the Queen and her Australian Governors
Annandale, NSW: Federation Press, 2006

 

NEW ZEALAND

Noel Cox
A Constitutional History of the New Zealand Monarchy: The evolution of the New Zealand monarchy and the recognition of an autochthonous polity
Saarbrücken: V.D.M. Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. K.G., 2008

  

Valerie Davies
Royal tourists: 120 years of royal visits to New Zealand
Auckland, Random House, 1989

 

SOUTH AFRICA 

A.M. Faure, Jan-Erik Lane, eds.
South Africa: designing new political institutions
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1996

  

George Heaton Nicholls
South Africa in My Time
London: Allen and Unwin, 1961

  

Richard Steyn
Jan Smuts: Unafraid of Greatness
Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2015

 

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND 

Ronald Allison, Sarah Riddell, eds.
The Royal Encyclopaedia: Authorised Book of the Royal Family
London: Macmillan, 1991

  

Sir John Biggs-Davison, George Chowdharay-Best
The Cross of St. Patrick - The Catholic Unionist Tradition in Ireland
Bourne End, Buckinghamshire: The Kensal Press, 1984

  

Sir John Biggs-Davison
Tory Lives from Falkland to Disraeli
London: Putnam, 1952

  

HRH Charles, Prince of Wales
Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World
London: HarperCollins, 2010

  

Sean Connolly
Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766: A Fatal Attachment
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002

  

Eveline Cruickshanks
Political Untouchables; The Tories and the ‘45
London: Duckworth, 1979

  

Jonathan Dimbleby
Prince of Wales: A Biography
London: Quill, 1996

  

Eamon Duffy
Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012

  

Eamon Duffy
The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, c.1400 to c.1580
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992

  

H.W.J. Edwards
Sons of the Romans: The Tory as nationalist
Swansea: Christopher Davies, 1975

  

Ronald Hutton
The Rise and Fall of Merry England: The Ritual Year 1400-1700
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994

  

Storm Jameson
The Decline of Merry England
London: Cassell And Company Ltd., 1930

  

James Loughlin
The British Monarchy and Ireland: 1800 to the Present
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007

  

Sir Compton Mackenzie
The Windsor Tapestry
London: Rich and Cowan, Ltd., 1936

  

Catherine Mayer
Charles: the Heart of a King
New York: W.H. Allen, 2015

  

Paul Kleber Monod
Jacobitism and the English People, 1688-1788
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993

  

James H. Murphy
Abject Loyalty: Nationalism and Monarchy in Ireland During the Reign of Queen Victoria
Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2001

  

Philip Murphy
Monarchy and the End of Empire: The House of Windsor, the British Government, and the Modern Commonwealth
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013

  

Aidan Nichols, O.P.
The Realm: An Unfashionable Essay on the Conversion of England
Oxford: Family Publications, 2008

  

Sir Charles Petrie, Bt.
The Four Georges A Revaluation of the Period From 1714 to 1830
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1935

  

Sir Charles Petrie, Bt.
The Jacobite Movement: The First Phase 1688–1716
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1948

  

Sir Charles Petrie, Bt.
The Jacobite Movement: The Last Phase, 1716–1807
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950

  

Murray G.H. Pittock
The Invention of Scotland: The Stuart Myth and the Scottish Identity, 1638 to the Present
London: Routledge, 1991

  

John M. Regan
Irish Counter-Revolution, 1921-1936: Treatyite Politics and Settlement in Independent Ireland
Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2000

  

Joseph Robins
Champagne and Silver Buckles: The Viceregal Court at Dublin Castle 1700-1922
Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 2001

 

FRANCE 

Paul Beik
The French Revolution Seen from the Right: Social Theories in Motion, 1789-1799
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1956

  

Guillaume de Bertier de Sauvigny
The Bourbon Restoration
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1966

  

Bernard Fay
Louis XVI or the End of a World
New York: W.H. Allen, 1968

  

Raymond Jonas
France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart: An Epic Tale for Modern Times
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000

  

Richard A. Lebrun
Throne and Altar: The Political and Religious Thought of Joseph de Maistre
Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1965

  

Richard A. Lebrun
Joseph de Maistre. An Intellectual Activist
Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988

  

Richard A. Lebrun
Joseph de Maistre's life, thought and influence, selected studies
Ottawa, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001

  

Philip Mansel
The Court of France 1789-1830
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989

  

Charlotte Touzalin Muret, ed.
French Royalist Doctrines Since the Revolution
New York: Columbia University Press, 1933

  

Samuel M. Osgood
French Royalism Since 1870
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1970