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A Mission to Civilize : The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930
Overview
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 persistent appeal of a "civilizing" ideology with distinct racist overtones?
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- ISBN-13: 9780804729994
- ISBN-10: 0804729999
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- Publish Date: December 1997
- Dimensions: 9.37 x 6.36 x 1.18 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
- Page Count: 446
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