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A Velvet Empire : French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century
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Title
A Velvet Empire : French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century / David Todd.
ISBN
9780691205342
9780691205335
9780691171838
Publication
Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©[2021]
Physical Description
1 online resource (344 pages): illustrations.
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Summary
"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 mechanisms of imperial collaboration that extended France's power from the Middle East to Latin America and ushered in the modern age of globalization"-- Provided by publisher.
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Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Series
Histories of economic life
Contents
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
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
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
Subjects
Genre/Form
History
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