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Author Lyons, Amelia H.

Title The civilizing mission in the metropole : Algerian families and the French welfare state during decolonization / Amelia H. Lyons.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]
2013

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Description 1 online resource (341 pages) : illustrations
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Civilizing "French Muslims from Algeria" -- Instructing the experts : framing the metropolitan "conquest of hearts" -- Instructing a "difficult and delicate clientele" : the social services mission -- From dormitories to homes : housing workers and families during the Fourth Republic -- Services and surveillance : welfare, the police, and the Algerian War -- The great "hope" : housing Algerian families at the height of the Algerian War.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Algerians -- Government policy -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Immigrants -- Government policy -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Welfare state -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962.
France -- History -- 1945-1958.
France -- Colonies -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Lyons, Amelia H. Civilizing mission in the metropole : Algerian families and the French welfare state during decolonization. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013] xiii, 324 pages 9780804784214 (DLC) 2013018102
ISBN 9780804784214
9780804787147 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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