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...

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