The Civilizing Mission In The Metropole

Author : Amelia H. Lyons
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804787147

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The Civilizing Mission in the Metropole by Amelia H. Lyons Pdf

France, which has the largest Muslim minority community in Europe, has been in the news in recent years because of perceptions that Muslims have not integrated into French society. The Civilizing Mission in the Metropole explores the roots of these debates through an examination of the history of social welfare programs for Algerian migrants from the end of World War II until Algeria gained independence in 1962. After its colonization in 1830, Algeria fought a bloody war of decolonization against France, as France desperately fought to maintain control over its most prized imperial possession. In the midst of this violence, some 350,000 Algerians settled in France. This study examines the complex and often-contradictory goals of a welfare network that sought to provide services and monitor Algerian migrants' activities. Lyons particularly highlights family settlement and the central place Algerian women held in French efforts to transform the settled community. Lyons questions myths about Algerian immigration history and exposes numerous paradoxes surrounding the fraught relationship between France and Algeria—many of which echo in French debates about Muslims today.

Author : A. Twells
Publisher : Springer
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230234727

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The Civilising Mission and the English Middle Class, 1792-1850 by A. Twells Pdf

This volume concerns the missionary philanthropic movement which burst onto the social scene in early nineteenth century in England, becoming a popular provincial movement which sought no less than national and global reformation.

Author : Osama Abi-Mershed
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804774727

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Apostles of Modernity by Osama Abi-Mershed Pdf

Between 1830 and 1870, French army officers serving in the colonial Offices of Arab Affairs profoundly altered the course of political decision-making in Algeria. Guided by the modernizing ideologies of the Saint-Simonian school in their development and implementation of colonial policy, the officers articulated a new doctrine and framework for governing the Muslim and European populations of Algeria. Apostles of Modernity shows the evolution of this civilizing mission in Algeria, and illustrates how these 40 years were decisive in shaping the principal ideological tenets in French colonization of the region. This book offers a rethinking of 19th-century French colonial history. It reveals not only what the rise of Europe implied for the cultural identities of non-elite Middle Easterners and North Africans, but also what dynamics were involved in the imposition or local adoptions of European cultural norms and how the colonial encounter impacted the cultural identities of the colonizers themselves.

Author : Alice L. Conklin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0804740127

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A Mission to Civilize by Alice L. Conklin Pdf

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 modern French republicanism generally. French ideas of civilization—simultaneously republican, racist, and modern—encouraged the governors general in the 1890’s to attack such “feudal” African institutions as aristocratic rule and slavery in ways that referred back to France’s own experience of revolutionary change. Ironically, local administrators in the 1920’s also invoked these same ideas to justify such reactionary policies as the reintroduction of forced labor, arguing that coercion, which inculcated a work ethic in the “lazy” African, legitimized his loss of freedom. By constantly invoking the ideas of “civilization,” colonial policy makers in Dakar and Paris managed to obscure the fundamental contradictions between “the rights of man” guaranteed in a republican democracy and the forcible acquisition of an empire that violates those rights. In probing the “republican” dimension of French colonization in West Africa, this book also sheds new light on the evolution of the Third Republic between 1895 and 1930. One of the author’s principal arguments is that the idea of a civilized mission underwent dramatic changes, due to ideological, political, and economic transformations occurring simultaneously in France and its colonies. For example, revolts in West Africa as well as a more conservative climate in the metropole after World War I produced in the governors general a new respect for “feudal” chiefs, whom the French once despised but now reinstated as a means of control. This discovery of an African “tradition” in turn reinforced a reassertion of traditional values in France as the Third Republic struggled to recapture the world it had “lost” at Verdun.

Author : Frederick Cooper,Ann Laura Stoler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0520206053

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Tensions of Empire by Frederick Cooper,Ann Laura Stoler Pdf

"Carrying the inquiry into zones previous itineraries have typically avoided—the creation of races, sexual relations, invention of tradition, and regional rulers' strategies for dealing with the conquerors—the book brings out features of European expansion and contraction we have not seen well before."—Charles Tilly, The New School for Social Research "What is important about this book is its commitment to shaping theory through the careful interpretation of grounded, empirically-based historical and ethnographic studies. . . . By far the best collection I have seen on the subject."—Sherry B. Ortner, Columbia University

Author : Joshua Schreier
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813547947

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Arabs of the Jewish Faith by Joshua Schreier Pdf

Exploring how Algerian Jews responded to and appropriated France's newly conceived "civilizing mission" in the mid-nineteenth century, Arabs of the Jewish Faith shows that the ideology, while rooted in French Revolutionary ideals of regeneration, enlightenment, and emancipation, actually developed as a strategic response to the challenges of controlling the unruly and highly diverse populations of Algeria's coastal cities.

Author : Catherine Hall
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0226313352

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Civilising Subjects by Catherine Hall Pdf

How did the English get to be English? In Civilising Subjects, Catherine Hall argues that the idea of empire was at the heart of mid-nineteenth-century British self-imagining, with peoples such as the "Aborigines" in Australia and the "negroes" in Jamaica serving as markers of difference separating "civilised" English from "savage" others. Hall uses the stories of two groups of Englishmen and -women to explore British self-constructions both in the colonies and at home. In Jamaica, a group of Baptist missionaries hoped to make African-Jamaicans into people like themselves, only to be disappointed when the project proved neither simple nor congenial to the black men and women for whom they hoped to fashion new selves. And in Birmingham, abolitionist enthusiasm dominated the city in the 1830s, but by the 1860s, a harsher racial vocabulary reflected a new perception of the nonwhite subjects of empire as different kinds of men from the "manly citizens" of Birmingham. This absorbing study of the "racing" of Englishness will be invaluable for imperial and cultural historians.

Author : Margaret Cook Andersen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031260247

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Fertility, Family, and Social Welfare between France and Empire by Margaret Cook Andersen Pdf

Author : Rita Chin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691192772

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The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe by Rita Chin Pdf

"From the influx of immigrants in the 1950s to contemporary worries about refugees and terrorism, The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe examines the historical development of multiculturalism on the Continent. Rita Chin argues that there were few efforts to institute state-sponsored policies of multiculturalism, and those that emerged were pronounced failures virtually from their inception. She shows that today's crisis of support for cultural pluralism isn't new but actually has its roots in the 1980s. Chin looks at the touchstones of European multiculturalism, from the urgent need for laborers after World War II to the public furor over the publication of The Satanic Verses and the question of French girls wearing headscarves to school. While many Muslim immigrants had lived in Europe for decades, in the 1980s they came to be defined by their religion and the public's preoccupation with gender relations. Acceptance of sexual equality became the critical gauge of Muslims' compatibility with Western values. The convergence of left and right around the defense of such personal freedoms against a putatively illiberal Islam has threatened to undermine commitment to pluralism as a core ideal. Chin contends that renouncing the principles of diversity brings social costs, particularly for the left, and she considers how Europe might construct an effective political engagement with its varied population."--Publisher web site

Author : James McDougall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521851640

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A History of Algeria by James McDougall Pdf

An essential introduction to the history of Algeria, spanning a period of five hundred years.

Author : Ed Naylor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137551337

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France's Modernising Mission by Ed Naylor Pdf

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.

Author : Elizabeth A. Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674987661

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African Catholic by Elizabeth A. Foster Pdf

Elizabeth Foster examines how French imperialists and the Africans they ruled imagined the religious future of sub-Saharan Africa in the years just before and after decolonization. The story encompasses the transition to independence, Catholic contributions to black intellectual currents, and efforts to create an authentically "African" church.

Author : Harald Fischer-Tiné,Michael Mann
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843310914

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Colonialism as Civilizing Mission by Harald Fischer-Tiné,Michael Mann Pdf

Inherent in colonialism was the idea of self-legitimation, the most powerful tool of which was the colonizer's claim to bring the fruits of progress and modernity to the subject people. In colonial logic, people who were different because they were inferior had to be made similar - and hence equal - by civilizing them. However, once this equality had been attained, the very basis for colonial rule would vanish. Colonialism as Civilizing Mission explores British colonial ideology at work in South Asia. Ranging from studies on sport and national education, to pulp fiction to infanticide, to psychiatric therapy and religion, these essays on the various forms, expressions and consequences of the British 'civilizing mission' in South Asia shed light on a topic that even today continues to be an important factor in South Asian politics.

Author : Carey Anthony Watt,Michael Mann
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843318644

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Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia by Carey Anthony Watt,Michael Mann Pdf

'Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia' offers a series of analyses that highlights the complexities of British and Indian civilizing missions in original ways and through various historiographical approaches. The book applies the concept of the civilizing mission to a number of issues in the colonial and postcolonial eras in South Asia: economic development, state-building, pacification, nationalism, cultural improvement, gender and generational relations, caste and untouchability, religion and missionaries, class relations, urbanization, NGOs, and civil society.

Author : Melissa K. Byrnes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803290730

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Making Space by Melissa K. Byrnes Pdf

Melissa Byrnes explores the ways local communities in the French suburbs reacted to the growing presence of North African migrants in the decades after World War II and the decolonization of Algeria.