How France's elites used soft power to pursue their imperial ambitions in the nineteenth centuryAfter 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 c


Format Inbunden Omfång 368 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Princeton University Press Utgivningsdatum 2021-01-12 ISBN 9780691171838