| 书目名称 | France‘s Modernising Mission | | 副标题 | Citizenship, Welfare | | 编辑 | Ed Naylor | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Offers fresh insights into attempts at a moral re-arming of colonial rule after World War Two.Furthers the debate on the discourse of modernisation as an important dynamic in the decolonisation proces | | 丛书名称 | St Antony‘s Series | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | 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 polic | | 出版日期 | Book 2018 | | 关键词 | Citizenship; Empire; Terra Non Firma; Adapted Education in French West Africa; Colonial French Africa; As | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55133-7 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-137-55133-7Series ISSN 2633-5964 Series E-ISSN 2633-5972 | | issn_series | 2633-5964 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 |
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