Of the many European territorial reconfigurations that followed the wars of the early nineteenth century, the Ionian State remains among the least understood. Xenocracy offers a much-needed account of the region during its half-century as a Protectorate of Great Britain-a period that embodied all of the contradictions of British colonialism. A middle class of merchants, lawyers and state officials embraced and promoted a liberal modernization project. Yet despite the improvements experienced by many Ionians, the deterioration of state finances led to divisions along class lines and presented a…mehr
Of the many European territorial reconfigurations that followed the wars of the early nineteenth century, the Ionian State remains among the least understood. Xenocracy offers a much-needed account of the region during its half-century as a Protectorate of Great Britain-a period that embodied all of the contradictions of British colonialism. A middle class of merchants, lawyers and state officials embraced and promoted a liberal modernization project. Yet despite the improvements experienced by many Ionians, the deterioration of state finances led to divisions along class lines and presented a significant threat to social stability. As author Sakis Gekas shows, the ordeal engendered dependency upon and ambivalence toward Western Europe, anticipating the "neocolonial" condition with which the Greek nation struggles even today.
Sakis Gekas is an Associate Professor and the Hellenic Heritage Foundation Chair in Modern Greek History at York University, Toronto. He has written on the Ionian Islands under British rule, on merchants and ports in the Mediterranean, and the economic history of nineteenth-century Greece.
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List of Figures Introduction Chapter 1. The First Greek State and the Origins of Colonial Governmentality Chapter 2. Building the Colonial State Chapter 3. Law, Colonialism and State Formation Chapter 4. Colonial Knowledge and the Making of Ionian Governmentality Chapter 5. 'A True and Hateful Monopoly': Merchants and the State Chapter 6. State Finances and the Cost of Protection Chapter 7. Building a Modern State: Public Works and Public Spaces Chapter 8. 'Progress': State Policies for Ionian Development Chapter 9. Poverty, the State and the Middle Class Chapter 10. The Literati and the Liberali. The making of the Ionian bourgeoisie Conclusion: 1864; the end of colonial rule? Bibliography Index
List of Figures Introduction Chapter 1. The First Greek State and the Origins of Colonial Governmentality Chapter 2. Building the Colonial State Chapter 3. Law, Colonialism and State Formation Chapter 4. Colonial Knowledge and the Making of Ionian Governmentality Chapter 5. 'A True and Hateful Monopoly': Merchants and the State Chapter 6. State Finances and the Cost of Protection Chapter 7. Building a Modern State: Public Works and Public Spaces Chapter 8. 'Progress': State Policies for Ionian Development Chapter 9. Poverty, the State and the Middle Class Chapter 10. The Literati and the Liberali. The making of the Ionian bourgeoisie Conclusion: 1864; the end of colonial rule? Bibliography Index
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