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A Mission to Civilize|Alice L. Conklin

A Mission to Civilize : The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930

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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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