"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" "Winner of the Gyorgy Ranki Prize, Economic History Association" "[ A] necessary reappraisal of French imperialism, a velvet empire indeed."---Francis Ghiles, Arab Weekly "Skillfully organized and enjoyable to read, A Velvet Empire is a must read for historians of modern France and 19th-century colonialism." * Choice Reviews * "A must-read for general readers and scholars interested in the evolution of French imperialism in the XIX century."---Giampaolo Conte, The Journal of European Economic History "A Velvet Empire makes a compelling case for informal empire as a core principle of French global expansion in the mid-nineteenth century . . . It situates an understudied period, long seen as an outlier, within the imperial longue durée, and its deft analysis of the interrelationship between foreign policy, economic actors, and culture will offer a useful road map for scholars exploring similar questions from different perspectives."---Maureen DeNino, Nineteenth-Century French Studies "Todd has pulled off a tour de force by producing a challenging and thought-provoking study."---Samir Saul, H-Diplo "Wide-ranging. . . . [ A Velvet Empires] originality lies in its skillful weaving together of economic, political, and cultural history to illustrate how banking practices and commercial growth shaped and were shaped by foreign policy."---Miranda Spieler, H-Diplo "David Todd is no apologist for past historical fashions; nor is A Velvet Empire an intellectual throwback. Quite the reverse: the singular achievement of this superb book is to demonstrate the continuing salience of informal empire as an explanatory mechanism for imperialist reasoning and gathering colonial influence from the late eighteenth century to the start of the twentieth. . . . [ A Velvet Empire] throws new light on the pernicious infectivity of imperial influence and the benefits of keeping it hidden."---Martin C. Thomas, H-Diplo
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