France's Modernising Mission Citizenship, Welfare and the Ends of Empire /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Naylor, Ed (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: St Antony's Series,
• Subjects: France-History.; Social history.; World politics.; Imperialism.; History of France.; Social History.; Political History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.

This volume explores how France's 'modernising mission' unfolded during the post-war period and its reverberations in the decades after empire. In the aftermath of the Second World War, France sought to reinvent its empire by transforming the traditional 'civilising mission'...