Xenocracy

Sakis Gekas is an Associate Professor and the Hellenic Heritage Foundation Chair in Modern Greek History at York University, Toronto. He has written on the Ionian Islands under British rule, on merchants and ports in the Mediterranean, and the economic history of nineteenth-century Greece.

List of Figures



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