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A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930 Alice L. Conklin New edition
A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930
Alice L. Conklin
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?
384 pages, 5 maps
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | February 1, 2000 |
| ISBN13 | 9780804740128 |
| Publishers | Stanford University Press |
| Pages | 384 |
| Dimensions | 155 × 227 × 24 mm · 538 g |
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