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

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 mission'.
eBook, English, 2017
Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2017