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An Empire Divided - Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880-1914 (Hardcover)
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An Empire Divided - Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880-1914 (Hardcover)
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Between 1880 and 1914, tens of thousands of men and women left
France for distant religious missions, driven by the desire to
spread the word of Jesus Christ, combat Satan, and convert the
world's pagans to Catholicism. But they were not the only ones with
eyes fixed on foreign shores. Just as the Catholic missionary
movement reached its apex, the young, staunchly secular Third
Republic launched the most aggressive campaign of colonial
expansion in French history. Missionaries and republicans abroad
knew they had much to gain from working together, but their starkly
different motivations regularly led them to view one another with
resentment, distrust, and even fear.
In An Empire Divided, J.P. Daughton tells the story of how
troubled relations between Catholic missionaries and a host of
republican critics shaped colonial policies, Catholic perspectives,
and domestic French politics in the tumultuous decades before the
First World War. With case studies on Indochina, Polynesia, and
Madagascar, An Empire Divided--the first book to examine the role
of religious missionaries in shaping French colonialism--challenges
the long-held view that French colonizing and "civilizing" goals
were shaped by a distinctly secular republican ideology built on
Enlightenment ideals. By exploring the experiences of Catholic
missionaries, one of the largest groups of French men and women
working abroad, Daughton argues that colonial policies were
regularly wrought in the fires of religious discord--discord that
indigenous communities exploited in responding to colonial
rule.
After decades of conflict, Catholics and republicans in the empire
ultimately buried many of their disagreements by embracing anotion
of French civilization that awkwardly melded both Catholic and
republican ideals. But their entente came at a price, with both
sides compromising long-held and much-cherished traditions for the
benefit of establishing and maintaining authority. Focusing on the
much-neglected intersection of politics, religion, and imperialism,
Daughton offers a new understanding of both the nature of French
culture and politics at the fin de siecle, as well as the power of
the colonial experience to reshape European's most profound
beliefs.
Winner of the Alf Andrew Heggoy Prize of the French Colonial
Historical Society
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