This book addresses a central but often ignored question in the history of modern France and modern colonialism: How did the Third Republic, highly regarded for its professed democratic values, allow itself to be seduced by the insidious and persistent appeal of a -civilizing- ideology with distinct racist overtones? By focusing on a particular group of colonial officials in a specific setting-the governors general of French West Africa from 1895 to 1930-the author argues that the ideal of a special civilizing mission had a decisive impact on colonial policymaking and on the evolution of...
This book addresses a central but often ignored question in the history of modern France and modern colonialism: How did the Third Republic, highly re...
In the Museum of Man offers new insight into the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high-water mark of French imperialism and European racism. Alice L. Conklin takes us into the formative years of French anthropology and social theory between 1850 and 1900; then deep into the practice of anthropology, under the name of ethnology, both in Paris and in the empire before and especially after World War I; and finally, into the fate of the discipline and its practitioners under the German Occupation and its immediate aftermath.
Conklin addresses the...
In the Museum of Man offers new insight into the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high-water mark of French...
In the Museum of Man offers new insight into the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high-water mark of French imperialism and European racism. Alice L. Conklin takes us into the formative years of French anthropology and social theory between 1850 and 1900; then deep into the practice of anthropology, under the name of ethnology, both in Paris and in the empire before and especially after World War I; and finally, into the fate of the discipline and its practitioners under the German Occupation and its immediate aftermath.
Conklin addresses the...
In the Museum of Man offers new insight into the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high-water mark of French...
