{"product_id":"a-mission-to-civilize-9780804740128","title":"A Mission to Civilize","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Conklin brilliantly traces the interconnections and linkages between the three critical sites of political, cultural, and ideological interchange in France's civilizing mission in Africa: the imperial center, the colonial edifice sur place in West Africa, and the Africans themselves. This is scholarship that will eventually provoke a significant change in the way modern French history is conceived, researched, and written.\" -Julia Clancy-Smith,University of Arizona\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA note on orthography and translation; Introduction; 1. The setting: the idea of the civilizing mission in 1895 and the creation of the government general; 2. Public works and public health: civilization, technology, and science (1902-1914); 3. Forging the republican Sujet: schools, courts, and the attack on slavery (1902-1908); 4. 'En faire des hommes': William Ponty and the pursuit of moral progress (1908-1914); 5. Revolt and reaction: World War I and its consequences (1914-1930); 6. 'Democracy' reinvented: civilization through association (1914-1930); 7. Civilization through coercion: human Mise en Valeur in the 1920s; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405543645527,"sku":"9780804740128","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804740128.jpg?v=1730492781","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-mission-to-civilize-9780804740128","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}