Nineteenth-century empire builders saw themselves as introducing civilization, not restoring it.
Evidence
In contrast to Napo- leon’s awe of Egypt’s past, nineteenth-century empire builders as- sumed more often than not that they were introducing civilization rather than reintroducing it. This distinction would prove to be a crucial one, and it marked a third and final phase in the develop- ment of France’s civilizing mission ideology between 1770 and 1870. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 76
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
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- Industrial superiority convinced the French that they monopolized civilization (similarity 0.81)
- Napoleon’s Egyptian expedition converted Enlightenment ideas into a concrete colonial blueprint. (similarity 0.81)
- Republican France distinguished conquest in Europe from ‘civilizing’ missions among non-Europeans. (similarity 0.80)
- Napoleon turned Enlightenment philosophy of civilization into a concrete colonial program (similarity 0.80)
- French imperial ideology shifted toward limited acculturation and technology transfer. (similarity 0.80)
- Fusing national aspirations with empire-building proved less successful than open imperialism. (similarity 0.79)
- France’s republican ideals coexisted with colonial domination through a civilizing ideal (similarity 0.79)
- Enlightenment’s conversion into positivism has been historically confirmed. (similarity 0.78)
- French colonial ideology shifted in step with metropolitan political changes. (similarity 0.78)
- French imperial ideology stemmed from colonial fiscal interests plus Enlightenment ideas. (similarity 0.78)
- France’s mission civilisatrice originated conceptually with the Egyptian expedition of the Republic. (similarity 0.78)