{"product_id":"anthropology-colonial-policy-and-the-douglas-w-leonard-9781788315203","title":"Anthropology, Colonial Policy and the Decline of French Empire in Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003eConceived as both a vehicle to national prestige and as a civilizing mission, the second French colonial empire (1830-1962) challenged soldiers, scholars, and administrators to understand societies radically different from their own. The resultant networks of anthropological inquiry, however, did not have this effect. Rather, they opened pathways to political and intellectual independence framed in the language of social science, and in the process upended the colonial political system and reshaped the nature of human inquiry in France. While still unequal, French colonial rule in Africa revealed the durability and strength of non-European modes of thought. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this influential new study, historian Douglas W. Leonard examines the political and intellectual repercussions of French efforts to understand and to dominate colonial Africa through the use of anthropology. From General Louis Faidherbe in the 1840s to politician Jacques Soustelle and sociologist Pierre Bourdieu in the 1950s, these French thinkers sowed the seeds of colonial destruction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Douglas W. Leonard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1788315200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781788315203\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/26\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d","brand":"Douglas W. Leonard","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48113727734015,"sku":"9781788315203","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e68293ba-c027-4ac1-81ac-0f1bed6acc99.jpg?v=1769616921","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/anthropology-colonial-policy-and-the-douglas-w-leonard-9781788315203","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}