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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

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ISBN10: 0804729999
ISBN13: 9780804729994
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Dec 1 1997
Pages: 446
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.18 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.37
Language: English
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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