Failed prewar policies forced France into a conservative civilizing mission.

Evidence

Despite its disillusionment with rebellious chiefs, ambitious evolues, and untrustworthy metis, Dakar did not doubt in the 192o’s that it still had a mission to perform in West Af- rica. But in probing the causes of revolt it frankly admitted that many of its most cherished policies of the past had not yielded the expected dividends-and had actually hurt the interests of the Gov- ernment General. As a result, an amended version of the civilizing mission would emerge, along with revolt and reaction, in France and West Africa between 1914 and 1930. In keeping with the altered cli- mate of the postwar era, this revised civilization discourse would be considerably more conservative than the one it replaced. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 602

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• World War I drove French West Africa toward a more conservative civilizing mission (similarity 0.91)
• French failures in West Africa revived racism and redefined their civilizing mission (similarity 0.89)
• Dakar revised the civilizing mission after admitting its old policies failed (similarity 0.88)
• World War I drove Dakar from transforming Africans toward respecting precolonial aristocracies. (similarity 0.87)
• Postwar French colonial doctrine shifted in response to African resistance. (similarity 0.86)
• The 1920s civilizing mission abandoned universal egalitarianism for hierarchy (similarity 0.86)
• Unexpected wartime revolts shifted France toward a conservative, distancing republicanism (similarity 0.86)
• World War I weakened republican ideology and shifted colonial policy toward conservatism (similarity 0.85)
• Forced African conscription discredited France’s civilizing mission in West Africa (similarity 0.85)
• The mission civilisatrice was largely a lie according to West African critics (similarity 0.84)
• WWI shook but did not end the French republican civilizing mission (similarity 0.84)
• The early mission civilisatrice carried an egalitarian current that interwar association policy abandoned. (similarity 0.84)
• Moral-civilizing doctrine mattered more than economic in French colonial policy. (similarity 0.83)
• Postwar revolts pushed French administrators toward respecting African institutions. (similarity 0.83)
• French colonial ideology shifted in step with metropolitan political changes. (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• France’s civilizing mission lost its universalism and turned conservative by World War I #exemplifies (0.80) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 888
• World War I drove French West Africa toward a more conservative civilizing mission #corroborates (0.70) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 875