A Mission to Civilize
Subtitle: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: February 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780804740128
Subjects: African history: c 1500 to c 1900; European history: from c 1900 -; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Politics/International Relations; History - General History; Europe; West Africa; Africa - General; Europe - France; World - Colonial Studies; History / France
First sentence: By 1895, the mission civilisatrice had become the official ideology of the Third Republic's vast new empire.