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A Velvet Empire : French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century /

"After Napoleon's downfall in 1815, France embraced a mostly informal style of empire, one that emphasized economic and cultural influence rather than military conquest. A Velvet Empire is a new global history of French imperialism in the nineteenth century, providing new insights into the...

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Autor principal: Todd, David, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Forgotten Empire -- Counter-Revolutionary Empire -- Collaborative Empire -- 1. Empire without Sovereignty: The Political Economy of French Informal Imperialism -- Talleyrand's Imperial Vision -- The Invention of Neo-Colonialism -- Celebrating European Civilization -- Saint-Simonian Economics and Empire -- A French Imperialism of Free Trade -- A Turn to Formal Empire -- 2. Algeria, Informal Empire Manque -- The Ideological Origins of French Algeria -- The Bourbon Restoration's Colonial Scheme 
505 0 |a The Politics and Geopolitics of the 1830 Expedition -- Collaboration with 'Abd al-Qadir -- Economic Failure -- The Arab Kingdom, a Failed Revival of Informal Empire -- 3. Champagne Capitalism: The Commodification of Luxury and the French Empire of Taste -- The Acceleration of Globalization in France -- The Banality of Luxury -- Foundations of Neo-Courtly Economic Growth -- The Global Commodification of French Taste -- The Imperialism of the Empire of Taste -- 4. Conquest by Money: The Geopolitics and Logistics of Investment Colonization -- The Global Scale of French Foreign Lending 
505 0 |a Debt and Empire in French Political Economy -- The Haitian Origins of French Capital Exports -- Conquest by Money in the Middle East -- Financial Imperial Overreach in Mexico -- 5. Agents of Informal Empire: French Expatriates and Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in Egypt -- French Imperial Expatriates -- The Colony's Influence -- A French Legal Borderland -- The Imperial Profits of Extraterritoriality -- The Crisis of French Extraterritoriality in Egypt -- End of French Ascendancy -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index 
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