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From the eighteenth century onward, the British Empire, in common with other European empires and their various settler offshoots in the Americas and elsewhere, was routinely justified by reference to its role in ‘uplifting’ colonized peoples from their savage primitivism through the introduction of European civilization. This justification of colonialism was informed by an ethnocentric view of human development in which Europeans perceived themselves to be at the vanguard of progress while non-Europeans were considered a throwback to an ancient past. Accordingly, Europe had a moral duty to impart its culture and practices to the rest of the world. The French referred to this curiously benevolent perspective on domination as la mission civilisatrice—the civilizing mission.
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Woods, E.T. (2016). Introduction. In: A Cultural Sociology of Anglican Mission and the Indian Residential Schools in Canada. Cultural Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48671-4_1
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