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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Amelia H Lyons |
ISBN: | 9780804784214 0804784213 |
OCLC Number: | 842350821 |
Description: | xiii, 324 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Civilizing "French Muslims from Algeria" -- Instructing the experts : framing the metropolitan "conquest of hearts" -- Instructing a "difficult and delicate clientele" : the social services mission -- From dormitories to homes : housing workers and families during the Fourth Republic -- Services and surveillance : welfare, the police, and the Algerian War -- The great "hope" : housing Algerian families at the height of the Algerian War. |
Responsibility: | Amelia H. Lyons. |
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"This impressively researched book concentrates on the era from WWII until Algerian independence in 1962. Lyons courageously tackles and explains the complex relations among French ministries and bureaucracies that simultaneously pursued a civilizing mission while developing a welfare state . . . Specialists will immediately appreciate Lyons's important contribution . . . Highly recommended." -- P. C. Naylor "It is the rich evidence and new perspectives that make this book special. Lyons takes seriously France's postwar civilizing mission and marshals a wide range of archival material to show exactly how this expressed itself in the case of Algerians living in metropolitan France. She also sheds light on the complex and interlocking systems of governance that were deployed to protect, educate, improve and monitor Algerians. Above all, she offers a wealth of new insights into how the French state tried to remake Algerians in the image of a tarnished Republic." -- Emile Chabal "The Civilizing Mission in the Metropole is ground-breaking in a number of respects . . . The Civilizing Mission in the Metropole is a piece of top-notch historical research and interpretation." -- Mary Dewhurst Lewis "This original and well-crafted book illuminates how the French deployed welfare state policies as tools of colonial rule prior to and during the Algerian War. It is unique in its attention to the gendered dimensions of social policies in both colony and metropole. Lyons offers an excellent contribution to studies of the modern welfare state and of colonialism." -- Laura L. Frader "Amelia Lyons' pioneering and important book connects issues of republican universalism with the colonial sphere in the postwar era in new and exciting ways. The Civilizing Mission in the Metropole brings original and persuasive insight into the fraught history of French-Algerian relations. It ties together two French phenomena: a formidable state bureaucracy on the one hand, and the legacy of empire on the other. Lyons succeeds brilliantly in linking the history of the French republic with that of its colonial empire. This solidly argued, beautifully researched book provides insight into the politics of difference, the welfare state, and issues of assimilation, integration, gender, and multiculturalism, most notably." -- Eric Jennings Read more...


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- Algerians -- Government policy -- France -- History -- 20th century.
- Immigrants -- Government policy -- France -- History -- 20th century.
- Welfare state -- France -- History -- 20th century.
- Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962.
- France -- History -- 1945-1958.
- France -- Colonies -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.
- French colonies.
- Immigrants -- Government policy.
- Welfare state.
- Africa.
- Algeria.
- France.
- Entkolonialisierung
- Islam
- Kolonie
- Sozialstaat
- Wirtschaftsentwicklung
- Algerien
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