A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930
"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 edificesur placein 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