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"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"
"Winner of the Gyorgy Ranki Prize, Economic History Association"
"[A] necessary reappraisal of French imperialism, a velvet empire indeed."---Francis Ghiles, Arab Weekly
"Skillfully organized and enjoyable to read, A Velvet Empire is a must read for historians of modern France and 19th-century colonialism." * Choice Reviews *
"A must-read for general readers and scholars interested in the evolution of French imperialism in the XIX century."---Giampaolo Conte, The Journal of European Economic History
"A Velvet Empire makes a compelling case for informal empire as a core principle of French global expansion in the mid-nineteenth century . . . It situates an understudied period, long seen as an outlier, within the imperial longue durée, and its deft analysis of the interrelationship between foreign policy, economic actors, and culture will offer a useful road map for scholars exploring similar questions from different perspectives."---Maureen DeNino, Nineteenth-Century French Studies

A Velvet Empire

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 12 January 2021
      ISBN-13 9780691171838
      978-0691171838
      ISBN-10 0691171831
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      Colonialism and imperialism

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"
      "Winner of the Gyorgy Ranki Prize, Economic History Association"
      "[A] necessary reappraisal of French imperialism, a velvet empire indeed."---Francis Ghiles, Arab Weekly
      "Skillfully organized and enjoyable to read, A Velvet Empire is a must read for historians of modern France and 19th-century colonialism." * Choice Reviews *
      "A must-read for general readers and scholars interested in the evolution of French imperialism in the XIX century."---Giampaolo Conte, The Journal of European Economic History
      "A Velvet Empire makes a compelling case for informal empire as a core principle of French global expansion in the mid-nineteenth century . . . It situates an understudied period, long seen as an outlier, within the imperial longue durée, and its deft analysis of the interrelationship between foreign policy, economic actors, and culture will offer a useful road map for scholars exploring similar questions from different perspectives."---Maureen DeNino, Nineteenth-Century French Studies

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