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"Conklin brilliantly traces the interconnections and linkages between the three critical sites of political, cultural, and ideological interchange in France's civilizing mission in Africa: the imperial center, the colonial edifice sur place in West Africa, and the Africans themselves. This is scholarship that will eventually provoke a significant change in the way modern French history is conceived, researched, and written." Julia Clancy-Smith,University of ArizonaConklin, Alice L. is the author of 'Mission to Civilize The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930', published 2000 under ISBN 9780804740128 and ISBN 0804740127.
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