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Nearly native, barely civilized : Henri Gaden's journey through colonial French West Africa (1894-1939) / by Roy Dilley.
Van Pelt Library DT554.67.G34 D55 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dilley, Roy, 1954- author.
- Series:
- African history (Brill Academic Publishers) ; v. 3.
- African history ; volume 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gaden, Henri, 1867-1939.
- Gaden, Henri.
- Colonial administrators--Africa, West--Biography.
- Colonial administrators.
- Linguists--Biography.
- Linguists.
- Africa, West--Politics and government--1884-1960.
- Africa, West.
- West Africa.
- Politics and government.
- Mauritania--Biography.
- Mauritania.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 442 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Brill, 2014.
- Summary:
- Nearly Native, Barely Civilized by Roy Dilley offers the first full-length biography of Henri Gaden, an exceptional French colonial character who lived through some of the most radical transformations in West African history. It provides an in-depth, intimate and rounded portrayal of the man, his place in history, and the contradictions, tensions and ambiguities not only in his personal and professional life but also at the heart of the colonial enterprise. Soldier, ethnographer and linguist, lover, father, administrator and Governor, Henri Gaden (1867-1939) lived for 45 years in West Africa. Faced with the chaos, insecurity and insanity of colonial existence, Gaden experienced a rich mosaic of human pain and passion, of curiosity and intellectual endeavour, of folly and failure. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- A funeral: Thursday, 14th December 1939
- Gironde, Paris and beyond
- Agent of commerce, African novice: from Bordeaux to Bandiagara, 1894-1896
- Interlude: furlough in France I
- On the trail of the Black Napoleon, 1897-1899
- Interlude: furlough in France II
- The mallam and the qadis: a posting to Zinder, 1900-1903
- Interlude: furlough in France III
- Cherchez la femme: Tchekna, Chad, 1904-1907
- Interlude: furlough in France IV
- Confidential relations: Boutilimit, Mauritania, 1908-1911
- Interlude: furlough in France V
- Paperwork and bullets: the years of scholarship and war, 1912-18
- Governor, savant, adopted son: St Louis, 1919-1927
- The monk of St Louis, 1927-1939.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004250963
- 9004250964
- 9789004265288
- 9004265287
- OCLC:
- 861211401
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