Empire Unbound argues that European empires were not the bounded, stable entities that imperialists imagined. Gavin Murray-Miller demonstrates that the era of 'new imperialism' which arose in the late 19th century fostered connections and synergies between regional powers that influenced the trajectories of imperial states in fundamental ways. In Empire Unbound, Gavin Murray-Miller provides a fresh perspective on France's efforts to solidify and expand their Mediterranean empire from the last decades of the nineteenth century to the end of the First World War.