A Mission To Civilize: The Republican . . .
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| Originally published | 1997 |
| Authors | Alice L. Conklin |
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| ID | 2278006 |
About A Mission To Civilize: The Republican . . .
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? . . .