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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?
By focusing on a particular group of colonial officials in a specific setting - the governors general of French West Africa from 1895 to 1930 - the author argues that the ideal of a special civilizing mission had a decisive impact on colonial policymaking and on the evolution of modern French republicanism generally.
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History, Politics and government, Governors general, Republicanism, Colonies, Administration, Racism, Africa, west, politics and government, France, colonies, africa, France, politics and government, 1870-1940, Republicanism, france, France, history, third republic, 1870-1940, Africa, west, historyPlaces
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A mission to civilize: the republican idea of empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930
1997, Stanford University Press
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0804729999 9780804729994
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-353) and index.
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