Britain’s Amical Protectorate

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract This chapter examines the Ionian Islands from the end of Venice’s rule in 1797 to the islands’ union with Greece in 1864, emphasizing Britain’s so-called amical protectorate over the archipelago. Idiosyncratically, the islands were nominally independent yet subject to a British administration that vacillated between paternalist absolutism and tentative reform. British officials improved Ionian infrastructure and legal institutions but also entrenched the privileges of traditional elites, marginalized the Greek Orthodox majority, and suppressed voices calling for union with Greece. These tensions illuminate a paradox of Britain’s imperial ethos: rhetoric of constitutional liberty coexisted with coercion and extrajudicial power. At the same time, Ionian affairs reflected wider Mediterranean transformations, from Napoleon’s conquests to foreign intervention in the Greek War of Independence to the emergence and spread of Greek irredentism. By highlighting the interplay of Ionian local society, imperial governance, and Greek revolutionary currents, this chapter situates the protectorate as both a product of its Venetian and Ottoman inheritances as well as a harbinger of modern Mediterranean nationalist and nation state consolidations. Britain’s voluntary cession of the islands in 1864—at a moment of that country’s global imperial expansion—further reveals the Ionian case as one of an ascendant empire balancing regional cultural heritage with realpolitik concerns.
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Authors Leslie Rogne Schumacher
Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197759523.013.0003
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197759523.013.0003
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