Renewed mise en valeur emphasis drove interwar colonial labor coercion policy

Evidence

But underlying these factors was a more basic reason still: the emergence of a renewed emphasis upon mise en valeur in Paris and Dakar, as well as a changing concept of how to tap the federation’s economic potential. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 755

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies what mise en valeur came to mean in the interwar period for colonial policy.