Xenocracy : : State, Class, and Colonialism in the Ionian Islands, 1815-1864 / / Sakis Gekas.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Gekas, Sakis,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (380 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 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