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Book SynopsisTrade 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
