The First Puppet States
Nominally independent states influenced by stronger powers have existed through history, but the advent of modern theories of state sovereignty makes a natural starting point for this article in the 19th Century.
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“The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)
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