Xenocracy

<p> Of the many European territorial reconfigurations that followed the wars of the early nineteenth century the Ionian State remains among the least understood. <em>Xenocracy </em>offers a much-needed account of the region during its half-century as a Protectorate of Great Britain - a period that embodied all of the contradictions of British colonialism. A middle class of merchants lawyers and state officials embraced and promoted a liberal modernization project. Yet despite the improvements experienced by many Ionians the deterioration of state finances led to divisions along class lines and presented a significant threat to social stability. Sakis Gekas shows that the impasse engendered de- pendency upon and ambivalence toward Western Europe anticipating the 'neocolonial' condition with which the Greek nation struggles even today.</p>