France between Europe and Africa: Youth, race, and envisioning the postwar world, 1940-1960
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[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Emily Marker
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Auslander, Leora
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The University of Chicago
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2016
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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360
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Bradley, Mark P.; Goldstein, Jan E.; Osborn, Emily L.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-43846-8
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
History
Body granting the degree
The University of Chicago
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2016
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This is a dissertation about youth and the horizons of belonging in postwar France as France attempted to negotiate its position between its old African empire and the new Europe after World War II. I argue that postwar French officials approached imperial renewal in Africa and European unity as "generational projects" that enlisted youth as critical agents in the establishment of fundamentally new kinds of pluralist, democratic, and postnational polities. To overcome colonial domination in the empire and national division in Europe, French politicians, administrators and educators proposed a vast array of education reforms and youth programs in the hopes of stimulating European integration and imperial renewal from the ground up. These proposals shared a good deal in common, despite the radically different political and material situations of postwar French Africa and Western Europe; in both contexts, they focused on making curricular and pedagogical changes to primary and secondary schooling, revising history textbooks, building new institutions of higher education, and developing youth and student exchange programs to unite diverse populations.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
African history; European history; World History
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Social sciences;Africa;Decolonization;Europe;France since 1945;Race and racism;Youth