France's Modernising Mission: Citizenship, Welfare and the Ends of Empire - Hardcover

by Ed Naylor (Editor)

Offers fresh insights into attempts at a moral re-arming of colonial rule after World War Two

Furthers the debate on the discourse of modernisation as an important dynamic in the decolonisation process

Brings together original research from leading historians of French empire

Author Biography

Ed Naylor is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of Languages and Area Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He completed his PhD in History at Queen Mary, University of London and held the Deakin fellowship at St Antony's College, Oxford, before joining the University of Portsmouth in 2014.
Contributors: Tony Chafer, Françoise de Barros, Liz Fink, Abdellali Hajjat, Jim House, Neil MacMaster, James McDougall, and Benoît Trépied.