TY  - JOUR
A1  - Riotte, Torsten
T1  - Personal union and transfer: Great Britain and Hanover, 1714–1837
T2  - EGO
N2  - During the transition from early-modern societies to the nation states of the 19th and 20th centuries, the formation of the territorial state performed an important function. The combining of dominions to form a geographical and political unit could occur through the annexation of the weaker territory by the stronger one, but it could also occur with the mutual agreement of the political decision-makers of both territories. In the case of a union, a distinction emerged very early on between a real union and a personal union (or union of crowns). While in a real union agreements under international law were equally binding for both partners, the personal union assumed a special status, in which the person of the ruler was the only connection between the two states. However, this strictly legal definition only applied to the political institutions. Below the state level, there were forms of transfer that could give a personal union a special, transnational character. Academic opinion remains divided on the extent to which these connections, which are referred to using the term "composite statehood", constitute a Europe-wide development.
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51289
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-512895
UR  - http://www.ieg-ego.eu/riottet-2012-en
SN  - 2192-7405
N1  - This text is licensed under: CC by-nc-nd 3.0 Germany - Attribution, Noncommercial, No Derivative Works
VL  - 2017
IS  - 2017-07-17
PB  - Inst. für Europäische Geschichte
CY  - Mainz
ER  -