France's Colonial Policy in Africa1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6025660 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Henri Labouret (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1940 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 154 |
| Pages | 22-35 |
| Publication date | 1940-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9909 • E-ISSN: 1468-2621 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a100972 |
| OpenAlex | W2266831797 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
HE policy which France is pursuing in Africa to-day is the result of a national mentality whose essential features must be summed up before going further, if the present situation is to be appreciated correctly and fairly. Most of these features have been described in the Sociologie Coloniale by R. Maunier, but it is relevant to emphasise some of them specially. They are divided into two groups, the first being of a psychological order, the others legal and political. To the first group one generally assigns the policy of assimilation adopted by France, the origins of which can be traced to the philosophical theories of the eighteenth century and the creation of the Bon sauvage immortalised by Rousseau. As a matter of fact, these doctrines are the expression of very deep feelings which were born very long ago in the bosom of the French conscience. They show themselves in a very lively curiosity regarding the people and events of other countries, and in a naive and spontaneous sympathy for the stranger whom one wishes to welcome and instruct and save from error by persuading him to adopt our civilisation, the highest and the best of all civilisations. All this, remarks G. Hardy, arises from an extraordinary thirst for spreading one's influence (rayonnement), an immense desire to convince, to win people, to gain their confidence, and it leads naturally to assimilation. One finds it already expressed with remarkable clearness in the Instructions drawn up by Colbert for the use of the Intendants of the King in Canada, long before the philosophers had formulated their theories and imagined the portrait of the perfect man that the Huron was in their eyes. During the second half of the seventeenth
Colonialism · Ethnology · Geography · Political science · Canadian Identity and History · History · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Social Sciences and Governance
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,05 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 2021 (35) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |