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Xenocracy : state, class, and colonialism in the Ionian Islands, 1815-1864 /

"Of the many European territorial reconfigurations to result from the Congress of Vienna, the Ionian State remains among the least understood. Xenocracy offers a much-needed account of the region during the ensuing half-century of oversight by Great Britain--a period that embodied all of the co...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gekas, Sakis (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn, [2017]
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The first Greek state and the origins of colonial governmentality
  • Building the colonial state
  • Law, colonialism and state formation
  • Colonial knowledge and the making of Ionian governmentality
  • "A true and hateful monopoly" : merchants and the state
  • State finances and the cost of protection
  • Building a modern state : public works and public spaces
  • "Progress" : state policies for Ionian development
  • Poverty, the state and the middle class
  • The literati and the liberali : the making of the Ionian bourgeoisie
  • Conclusion: 1864 : the end of colonial rule?