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  title info:
    title: France's Modernising Mission
    sub title: Citizenship, Welfare and the Ends of Empire
  name:
    name part: Naylor, Ed.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XLI, 258 p. 4 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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' into a 'modernising mission'. Henceforth, French claims to rule would be based on extending citizenship rights and the promise of economic development and welfare within a 'Greater France'. In the face of rising anti-colonial mobilization and a new international order, redefining the terms that bound colonised peoples and territories to the metropole was a strategic necessity but also a dynamic which Paris struggled to control. The language of reform and equality was seized upon locally to make claims on metropolitan resources and wrest away the political initiative. Intertwined with coercion and violence, the struggle to define what 'modernisation' would mean for colonised societies was a key factor in the wider process of decolonisation. Contributions by leading specialists extend geographically from Africa to the Pacific and to metropolitan France itself, examining a range of topics including education policy, colonial knowledge production, rural development and slum clearance. .
  table of contents: Chapter 1. Introduction; Ed Naylor -- Part I) Rethinking Education and Citizenship -- Chapter 2. Conflicting Modernities: Battles over France's policy of adapted education in French West Africa; Tony Chafer -- Chapter 3. Institutional Terra Non Firma: Representative democracy and the chieftaincy in French West Africa; Liz Fink -- Chapter 4. Decolonisation Without Independence? Breaking with the colonial in New Caledonia (1946-1975); Benoît Trépied.-Part II) Mental Maps and the Territory -- Chapter 5. Rule of Experts? Governing modernisation in late colonial French Africa; James McDougall -- Chapter 6. From Tent to Village regroupement: The Colonial state and social engineering of rural space, 1843 to 1962; Neil MacMaster -- Chapter 7. Shantytowns and Re-housing in Late Colonial Algiers and Casablanca; Jim House -- Part III) Metropolitan Legacies -- Chapter 8. Promoting 'Harmonious Cohabitation' in the Metropole: The Welfare charity Aide aux Travailleurs d'Outre Mer (1950-1975); Ed Naylor -- Chapter 9. Protests Against Shanty-towns in the 1950s and 1960s: Class logics, clientelist relations and 'colonial redeployments'; Françoise de Barros -- Chapter 10. Colonial Legacies: Housing policy and riot prevention strategies in the Minguettes district of Vénissieux; Abdellali Hajjat.
  note: edited by Ed Naylor.
  subject:
    topic: France-History
  subject:
    topic: Social history
  subject:
    topic: World politics
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism
  subject:
    topic: History of France
  subject:
    topic: Social History
  subject:
    topic: Political History
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism and Colonialism
  classification: DC1-947
  classification: 944
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: St Antony's Series
  identifier: 9781137551337
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55133-7
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    record creation date: 171212
    record change date: 20200129181030.0
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