France's Modernising Mission

Part I. Rethinking Education and Citizenship

1. Conflicting Modernities: Battles Over France’s Policy of Adapted Education in French West Africa
Tony Chafer

2. Institutional Terra Non Firma: Representative Democracy and the Chieftaincy in French West Africa
Liz Fink

3. Decolonisation Without Independence? Breaking with the Colonial in New Caledonia (1946–1975)
Benoît Trépied

Part II. Mental Maps and the Territory

4. Rule of Experts? Governing Modernisation in Late Colonial French Africa
James McDougall

5. From Tent to Village Regroupement: The Colonial State and Social Engineering of Rural Space, 1843–1962
Neil MacMaster

6. Shantytowns and Rehousing in Late Colonial Algiers and Casablanca
Jim House

Part III. Metropolitan Legacies

7. Promoting ‘Harmonious Cohabitation’ in the Metropole: The Welfare Charity Aide Aux Travailleurs D’Outre Mer (1950–1975)
Ed Naylor

8. Protests Against Shantytowns in the 1950s and 1960s: Class Logics, Clientelist Relations and ‘Colonial Redeployments’
Françoise Barros

9. Colonial Legacies: Housing Policy and Riot Prevention Strategies in the Minguettes District of Vénissieux
Abdellali Hajjat

Keywords: History, History of France, Social History, Political History, Imperialism and Colonialism