Contents note continued: 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
Machine generated contents note: pt. 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 -- pt. II ASSIMILATION IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH EMPIRE: THE RULE OF LAW AS AN ENGINE OF CIVILIZATION -- 1.British Colonial Justifications -- 2.The Colonial Career of Saxe Bannister -- 3.Bannister's Colonial Philosophy -- 4.Bannister's Civilizing 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 -- pt. III ASSIMILATION AGAINST COLONIALISM: THE STRUGGLE OF THE MUSLIM NATIVES IN FRENCH ALGERIA --
Summary
Assimilation was an ideology central to European expansion and colonisation, an ideology which legitimised colonisation for centuries. Assimilation and Empire shows that the aspiration for assimilation was not only driven by materialistic reasons, but was also motivated by ideas. The engine of assimilation was found in the combination of two powerful ideas: the European philosophical conception of human perfectibility and the idea of the modern state. Europeans wanted to create, in their empires, political and cultural forms they valued and wanted to realise in their own societies, but which did not yet exist
