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A Mission to Civilize
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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?
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A Mission to Civilize, Alice L Conklin, Sarah Fishman, Robert Zaretsky
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- 2000
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- Title
- A Mission to Civilize
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Alice L Conklin, Sarah Fishman, Robert Zaretsky
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Released
- 2000
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0804740127
- ISBN13
- 9780804740128
- Category
- Social sciences, History
- Description
- 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?