[HappyLinks286]

A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930 By Alice L. Conklin
Requirements: .PDF reader, 6.7 MB
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? 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. French ideas of civilization―simultaneously republican, racist, and modern..
Genre: Non-Fiction > History



Download Instructions:
(Closed Filehost) http://uploadocean.com/m7uzzkrolnt5
(Closed Filehost) http://upload4earn.net/6p3pshsk77qy