Unintended Nations
France’s Empire of Civilization, Southeast Europe, and the Post-Napoleonic World
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Unintended Nations
France’s Empire of Civilization, Southeast Europe, and the Post-Napoleonic World
About this book
In the wake of Napoleon's defeat in 1815, French liberals set out to create an informal empire. Their efforts to cultivate unequal partnerships with Christian, Greek-speaking elites in southeast Europe shaped national identities and structured global civilizational hierarchies over the decades that followed.
Unintended Nations tracks a notion of civilization that developed in early nineteenth-century France. Alex Tipei explores the constellation of ideas, beliefs, and practices this concept invoked – what she calls civilization-speak – and charts the cross-continental networks that employed it as an organizing principle. Drawing on archival and printed primary sources in six languages, Tipei maps out the uses of this civilization-speak on both sides of the continent, focusing on France and the lands that make up significant parts of present-day Greece and Romania. She shows how and why French liberals mobilized civilization-speak to, offering an innovative analysis of liberalism and capitalism's relationship to informal empire.
Calling into question long-standing assumptions about the rise of nationalism in southeast Europe, Unintended Nations explores how Franco-Balkan exchanges helped define political, civilizational, and biopolitical boundaries in the post-Napoleonic era.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Translation, Transliteration, Background Information, and Abbreviations
- Abbreviations
- Half-Title Page
- Introduction
- 1 A Bright Future Behind Them
- 2 Liberalism, Civilization, and Philanthropy: Making Civilization-Speak
- 3 French Liberals and a Peaceful Form of Conquest
- 4 Imperial Designs and Provincial Politics: Modernization and the Omogéneia
- 5 Commerce and Christianity: Mapping Civilization and Soft Power During the Greek War of Independence
- 6 State and Nation: Informal Empire, Civilization-Speak, and an Independent Greece
- 7 The Measure of Modernity: Reform and Education in the Principalities, 1821–34
- 8 Civilization-Speak and Nation-Speak: Making Romanians, Making Romania
- 9 Civilization Institutionalized: From Liberal Opposition to Power, or from Informal to Formal Empire
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index