TY  - BOOK
AU  - Todd, David
TI  - A Velvet Empire: :  French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century
T2  - Histories of economic life
SN  - 9780691171838
AV  - DC252.T63 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Princeton : 
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - France--Foreign relations--19th century
KW  - France--Politics and government--19th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-329) and index; 1. Empire without sovereignty: the political economy of French informal imperialism; 2. Algeria, informal empire manqué; 3. Champagne capitalism: the commodification of luxury and the French empire of taste; 4.Conquest by money: the geopolitics and logistics of investment colonization; 5. Agents of informal empire: French expatriates and extraterritorial jurisdiction in Egypt
N2  - "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"-- Provided by publisher
ER  -