While the mildness of the colonial encounter in the European edges of empire is belied by intractable political standoffs in Northern Ireland and Cyprus, such locations traditionally have been of only secondary interest to scholars of colonialism. This book valuably documents the complexity of one such “sideshow in the great game of European imperial expansion” (p. x), the British protectorate of the Ionian Islands (1815–1864), which now form a part of Greece.