Ending and Remembering

Abstract

Huge numbers of lives were lost in all the imperial wars, and millions of Indians died, not just fighting for the British, but in famines under British rule. Napoleon I and III, Wilhelm II, and Karl I were forced to abdicate after military defeat and Agustín and Maximilian of Mexico were executed. Pedro II of Brazil and George VI of India relinquished their thrones for other reasons. The chapter discusses how imperial cities bear witness today to the regimes that have gone and discusses what statuary and monuments in Paris, in Petrópolis, in Koblenz, and in India tell us about how vanished emperors are remembered.