An unravelling of the histories of two closely linked political goals - assimilation and empire - which were in many ways interdependent over the past 500 years. Examines the resilience of assimilative ideology across centuries, continents, and empires.
An unravelling of the histories of two closely linked political goals - assimilation and empire - which were in many ways interdependent over the past 500 years. Examines the resilience of assimilative ideology across centuries, continents, and empires.
Saliha Belmessous is a Senior Research Fellow in history at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She studied in France and Canada and has held research positions in the USA and Australia.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * Part I: Assimilation in early-modern French America: from francisation to racialism * 1: French colonial justifications * 2: Francisation as New France's founding project * 3: Defining French distinctiveness in seventeenth-century France * 4: Implementing francisation * 5: The emergence of race in French political imagination * 6: Conclusion * Part II: Assimilation in the nineteenth-century British empire: the rule of law as an engine of civilisation * 1: British colonial justifications * 2: The colonial career of Saxe Bannister * 3: Bannister's colonial philosophy * 4: Bannister's civilising scheme for the Aborigines of the British Empire * 5: Introducing the rule of law in the colonies * 6: Building an empire by treaty * 7: The outcomes of the assimilative project in the second half of the nineteenth century * 8: Conclusion * Part III: Assimilation against colonialism: the struggle of the Muslim natives in French Algeria * 1: French conquest of Algeria * 2: Assimilation in French political culture * 3: Assimilating Algeria to France * 4: Assimilating the Muslim natives through the rule of French law * 5: Assimilating the natives through education * 6: The rise of racial politics * 7: Assimilation in post-First World War Algeria * 8: Assimilation in Algeria: the indigenous point of view * 9: Conclusion * Conclusion: Assimilation in post-colonial societies * Bibliography
* Introduction * Part I: Assimilation in early-modern French America: from francisation to racialism * 1: French colonial justifications * 2: Francisation as New France's founding project * 3: Defining French distinctiveness in seventeenth-century France * 4: Implementing francisation * 5: The emergence of race in French political imagination * 6: Conclusion * Part II: Assimilation in the nineteenth-century British empire: the rule of law as an engine of civilisation * 1: British colonial justifications * 2: The colonial career of Saxe Bannister * 3: Bannister's colonial philosophy * 4: Bannister's civilising scheme for the Aborigines of the British Empire * 5: Introducing the rule of law in the colonies * 6: Building an empire by treaty * 7: The outcomes of the assimilative project in the second half of the nineteenth century * 8: Conclusion * Part III: Assimilation against colonialism: the struggle of the Muslim natives in French Algeria * 1: French conquest of Algeria * 2: Assimilation in French political culture * 3: Assimilating Algeria to France * 4: Assimilating the Muslim natives through the rule of French law * 5: Assimilating the natives through education * 6: The rise of racial politics * 7: Assimilation in post-First World War Algeria * 8: Assimilation in Algeria: the indigenous point of view * 9: Conclusion * Conclusion: Assimilation in post-colonial societies * Bibliography
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