World War I weakened republican ideology and shifted colonial policy toward conservatism
Evidence
It was, for example, republican principles as much as the experience of the conquest itself that led the Gov- ernment General in West Africa to condemn slavery and “feudal- ism” among African tribes. The Government General also adopted France’s latest technological improvements, partly out of the tradi- tional republican belief that science held one key to regenerating humanity. After World War I, these same values weakened as the Third Republic attempted to come to terms with the losses and trau- mas of the war and the growth of nationalist protest throughout the empire. Colonial discourse echoed this shift: established republican verities now surfaced in a more attenuated form in Dakar, replaced by a more conservative vision of progress-as the new respect for the African aristocracy and the greater emphasis on human mise en va- leur attest. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 42
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: The post-WWI shift to a conservative ‘mise en valeur’ vision is central to how the civilizing mission’s ideology changed over time.
Related
- World War I weakened liberal republican ideology in French colonialism. (similarity 0.91)
- World War I drove French West Africa toward a more conservative civilizing mission (similarity 0.89)
- French republican ideology in the colonies mirrored and shaped domestic Third Republic politics (similarity 0.87)
- World War I and right-wing politics drove French racism into colonial policy (similarity 0.87)
- World War I triggered the first large-scale revolts against French colonial rule (similarity 0.86)
- Failed prewar policies forced France into a conservative civilizing mission. (similarity 0.85)
- World War I drove Dakar from transforming Africans toward respecting precolonial aristocracies. (similarity 0.85)
- Unexpected wartime revolts shifted France toward a conservative, distancing republicanism (similarity 0.83)
- Colonized peoples’ revolts in Africa intensified France’s interwar racial conservatism (similarity 0.83)
- French colonial ideology shifted in step with metropolitan political changes. (similarity 0.82)
- Postwar French colonial doctrine shifted in response to African resistance. (similarity 0.82)
- World War I triggered the first large-scale revolts and racial distancing (similarity 0.81)
- French colonial policy in West Africa was republican, not assimilationist or associationist (similarity 0.81)
- West African revolts forced Dakar to reverse its assimilationist policies (similarity 0.81)
- France’s pro-chief policy change served hegemony, not genuine cultural interest (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- World War I and right-wing politics drove French racism into colonial policy
#corroborates(0.80) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 567 - World War I drove French West Africa toward a more conservative civilizing mission
#exemplifies(0.75) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 875 - Dakar’s rhetoric abandoned republican rights language after World War I
#exemplifies(0.60) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 879 - The First World War era sparked anti-colonial stirrings across Asia and Africa
#contradicts(0.40) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1191 - World War I supplied colonial troops on a massive scale while contradicting empire’s rationale
#complicates(0.40) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1184 - World War I triggered the first large-scale revolts against French colonial rule
#complicates(0.40) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 490 - French republican ideology in the colonies mirrored and shaped domestic Third Republic politics
#qualifies(0.30) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 40 - Escalating domestic costs force colonial powers to abandon ideological colonial formulas
#complicates(0.30) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1543 - World War I shifted French industries toward imperial supply sources
#qualifies(0.30) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 1366