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

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This text addresses a central 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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This text addresses a central 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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 30 Apr 2000
ISBN 10: 0804740127
ISBN 13: 9780804740128