By the 1870s French civilizing doctrine narrowed to technology transfer and limited acculturation

Evidence

This emphasis on establishing private property, increasing productivity and trade, and emancipating the masses from oppression had a long pedigree in French imperial ideology, to be sure. Yet the attention paid to public works and public hygiene, along with the insistence that Algerians preserve some of their social customs, had not. If Leroy-Beaulieu is any measure, both a more limited acculturation of its subjects, and one in which the transfer of technology figured prominently, had emerged as the essence of France’s civilizing mission in the first decade of the Third Republic. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 84

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Category: Factual Claims

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