Assimilation and Empire : Uniformity in French and British Colonies, 1541-1954
ISBN: 9780199579167 | 0199579164
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/22/2013
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Assimilation was an ideology central to European expansion and colonisation, an ideology which legitimised colonisation for centuries. Assimilation and Empire shows that the aspiration for assimilation was not only driven by materialistic reasons, but was also motivated by ideas. The engine of assimilation was found in the combination of two powerful ideas: the European philosophical conception of human perfectibility and the idea of the modern state. Europeans wanted tocreate, in their empires, political and cultural forms they valued and want... MORE
Introduction
Part I: Assimilation in early-modern French America: from francisation to racialism
1. French colonial justifications
2. Francisation as New France's founding project
3. Defining French distinctiveness in seventeenth-century France
4. Implementing francisation
5. The emergence of race in French political imagination
6. Conclusion
Part II: Assimilation in the nineteenth-century British empire: the rule of law as an engine of civilisation
1. British colonial justific... MORE
Saliha Belmessous is a Senior Research Fellow in history at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She studied in France and Canada and has held research positions in the USA and Australia.
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