Postwar French colonial doctrine shifted in response to African resistance.

Evidence

These changes in French civilizing tenets were not arbitrary, but causally linked in part to several local factors, such as gradually improving knowledge of African cultures, and a series of colonial revolts against France’s earlier imperial policies. One result of this change was that, after World War I, French civilizing tenets better served French interests than had the ones they replaced. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 39

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: the MOC “The Republic’s Impossible Embrace: How Universalism Turned Algeria from the Future of France into Its Undoing”