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A velvet empire : French informal imperialism in the nineteenth century
After Napoleon's downfall in 1815, France embraced a mostly informal style of empire, one that emphasized economic and cultural influence rather than military conquest. A Velvet Empire is a new global history of French imperialism in the nineteenth century, providing new insights into the mecha...
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | A velvet empire : French informal imperialism in the nineteenth century / David Todd |
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Princeton, Oxford :
Princeton University Press
, C 2021 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (XI-350 p.) |
| Collection : | Histories of Economic Life (Print) ; 4 |
| Titre de l'ensemble : | Histories of economic life vol. Vol. 4 |
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| Résumé : | After Napoleon's downfall in 1815, France embraced a mostly informal style of empire, one that emphasized economic and cultural influence rather than military conquest. A Velvet Empire is a new global history of French imperialism in the nineteenth century, providing new insights into the mechanisms of imperial collaboration that extended France's power from the Middle East to Latin America and ushered in the modern age of globalization |
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| Notes : | Portrait de l'auteur sur le rabat de la couverture |
| Bibliographie : | Bibliogr. p. 287-329. Notes bibliogr. Index |
| ISBN : | 978-0-691-17183-8 9780691205342 |