A Mission to Civilize – The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa…
A Mission to CivilizeThe Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930\nAuthor(s): Alice L. Conklin\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804740128, 978-0804740128\nSynopsis\nThis book addresses a central but often ignored question in the history of modern France and modern colonialism: How did the Third Republic, highly regarded for its professed democratic values, allow itself to be seduced by the insidious and persistent appeal of a \""civilizing\"" ideology with distinct racist overtones? By focusing on a particular group of colonial officials in a specific settingthe governors general of French West Africa from 1895 to 1930the author argues that the ideal of a special civilizing mission had a decisive impact on colonial policymaking and on the evolution of modern French republicanism generally.\n\n French ideas of civilizationsimultaneously republican, racist, and modernencouraged .
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