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The civilizing mission (Spanish: misión civilizadora; Portuguese: Missão civilizadora; French: Mission civilisatrice) is a political rationale for military intervention and for colonization purporting to facilitate the Westernization of indigenous peoples, especially in the period from the 15th to the 20th centuries. As a principle of Western culture, the term was most prominently used in justifying French[1] colonialism in the late-15th to mid-20th centuries. The civilizing mission was the cultural justification for the colonization of French Algeria, French West Africa, French Indochina, Portuguese Angola and Portuguese Guinea, Portuguese Mozambique and Portuguese Timor, among other colonies. The civilizing mission also was a popular justification for the British[2] and German[3][4] colonialism. In the Russian Empire, it was also associated with the Russian conquest of Central Asia and the Russification of that region.[5][6][7] The Western colonial powers claimed that, as Christian nations, they were duty bound to disseminate Western civilization to what they perceived as heathen, primitive cultures.[citation needed]
^Burrows, Mathew (1986). "'Mission civilisatrice': French Cultural Policy in the Middle East, 1860-1914". The Historical Journal. 29 (1): 109–135. doi:10.1017/S0018246X00018641. ISSN 0018-246X. JSTOR 2639258. S2CID 154801621.
^Mitchell 1991.
^Tezcan 2012, pp. 21–33.
^Thurman 2016.
^HOFMEISTER, ULRICH (2016). "Civilization and Russification in Tsarist Central Asia, 1860–1917". Journal of World History. 27 (3): 411–442. ISSN 1045-6007. JSTOR 44631473.
^Barth, Boris; Hobson, Rolf (2020). Civilizing missions in the twentieth century. Leiden. pp. 6, 95–97. ISBN 978-90-04-43812-5. OCLC 1176325685.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^Shlapentokh, Dmitry (2007). Russia Between East and West: Scholarly Debates on Eurasianism. BRILL. p. 23. ISBN 978-90-04-15415-5.
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