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A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930
A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930, Conklin brilliantly traces the interconnections and linkages between the three critical sites of political, cultural, and ideological interchange in France's civilizing mission in Africa: the imperial center, the colonial edifice sur place in West Africa, A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930 has a rating of 3.5 stars
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A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930, Conklin brilliantly traces the interconnections and linkages between the three critical sites of political, cultural, and ideological interchange in France's civilizing mission in Africa: the imperial center, the colonial edifice sur place in West Africa, A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930
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  • A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930
  • Written by author Alice L. Conklin
  • Published by Stanford University Press, February 2000
  • "Conklin brilliantly traces the interconnections and linkages between the three critical sites of political, cultural, and ideological interchange in France's civilizing mission in Africa: the imperial center, the colonial edifice sur place in West Africa
  • This 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 persisten
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Introduction1
1The Setting: The Idea of the Civilizing Mission in 1895 and the Creation of the Government General11
2Public Works and Public Health: Civilization, Technology, and Science (1902-1914)38
3Forging the Republican Sujet: Schools, Courts, and the Attack on Slavery (1902-1908)73
4"En faire des hommes": William Ponty and the Pursuit of Moral Progress (1908-1914)107
5Revolt and Reaction: World War I and Its Consequences (1914-1930)142
6"Democracy" Reinvented: Civilization Through Association (1914-1930)174
7Civilization Through Coercion: Human Mise en Valeur in the 1920's212
Conclusion246
Notes259
Bibliography327
Index355


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