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

France's Modernising Mission Citizenship, Welfare and the Ends of Empire / edited by Ed Naylor.

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 miss...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Naylor, Ed (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:St Antony's Series,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
France—History.
Social history.
World politics.
Imperialism.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
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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.

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