Sakis Gekas

Xenocracy

State, Class, and Colonialism in the Ionian Islands, 1815-1864

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Of the many European territorial recon¿gurations that followed the wars of the early nineteenth century, the Ionian State remains among the least understood. Xenocracy öers 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 öcials embraced and promoted a liberal modernization project. Yet despite the improvements experienced by many Ionians, the deterioration of state ¿nances led to divisions along class lines and presented a signi¿cant threat to social stability. Sakis Gekas shows that the impasse engendered de- pendency upon and ambivalence toward Western Europe, anticipating the 'neocolonial' condition with which the Greek nation struggles even today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9781805391272
• ISBN-10: 1805391275
• Artikelnr.: 68070877

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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