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By Ed Gerritsen, 2011
Collection Overview
Title: Andrew E. Barnes Collection, 1894-2004
ID: COLL/516
Primary Creator: Barnes, Andrew E.
Extent: 6.0 Cubic Feet. More info below.
Arrangement: Folder level description
Abstract
Associate professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University. The collection includes photocopied correspondence, addresses, papers, articles, monographs, manuscripts, dissertations, books, book segments, and miscellaneous materials that detail the research for the book, Making Headway: the Introduction of Western Civilization in Colonial Northern Nigeria (University of Rochester Press, 2009). Photocopied research materials from the Calvin Archives collection were discarded.
Biographical Note
"The process of cultural transfer in Northern Nigeria was historically thought to have been dictated by European colonial domination. In fact, Western missionaries may not have been able to guide African Christians toward mastery of the secular world when they themselves lacked the worldliness to do so. In this penetrating study, Andrew E. Barnes argues that competition among colonizing forces impelled British colonial administrators and Christian missionaries alike to offer Africans those aspects of Western civilization Africans themselves specifically wanted: schools that provided greater access to Western intellectual skills. In Making Headway: The Introduction of Western Civilization in Colonial Northern Nigeria, Barnes demonstrates effectively that Europeans were successful in transferring to local peoples the cultural values they hoped to foster only because Africans and Europeans reached consensus about the nature and character of the Western civilization to be shared. Ultimately, this study asserts, Africans had greater control over the introduction of Western civilization to the region than traditionally thought."--jacket.
Administrative Information
Repository:
Heritage Hall, Hekman Library
Alternate Extent Statement:
12 Boxes
Acquisition Source:
Andrew E. Barnes
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
[Series 1: Research Correspondence, 1905-1954],
[
Series 2: Research Reports, 1894-1958],
[
Series 3: Research Articles, 1960-1987],
[
Series 4: Research Papers, 1907-1993],
[
Series 5: Research Miscellaneous Materials, 1890-1993],
[
Series 6: Research Books and Dissertations, 1896-2004],
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All]
- Series 1: Research Correspondence --- 1905-1954
- Box 1
- Folder 1-3: Correspondence material re: religious tolerance in Northern Nigeria --- 1919-1932
- Folder 4: Correspondence material re: the sale of the booklet, The Truth about Mohammed --- 1926
- Folder 5-6: Correspondence re: missionary activity in Moslem areas --- 1916-1928
- Folder 7: Correspondence re: Moslem problems in Northern provinces --- 1927-1948
- Folder 8: Correspondence re: Moslem propaganda --- 1927-1949
- Folder 9: Correspondence re: mission schools in northern provinces --- 1926-1943
- Box 2
- Folder 1-2: Correspondence re: missionary complaints --- 1917-1931
- Folder 3: Correspondence re: W. R. Miller, Zaria Province --- 1916-1920
- Folder 4: Correspondence re: government correspondence --- 1905-1924
- Folder 5: Correspondence re: Hugh Clifford on educational reform --- undated
- Folder 6: Correspondence and back up documents re: Church of the Brethren Mission --- 1924-1932
- Folder 7: Correspondence re: conflict between Christians and pagan marriage customs --- 1935-1941
- Folder 8: Correspondence re: debate over teaching English in schools --- 1943
- Folder 9: Correspondence re: missions' spheres of influence in Nigeria --- 1931-1938
- Folder 10: Correspondence re: Nigerian mission schools --- 1943-1951
- Folder 11: Correspondence, Sudan United Mission (SUM) --- 1905-1953
- Folder 12: Correspondence re: Southern Nigerian youth influence on Northern Nigerian youth --- 1944
- Folder 13: Correspondence re: religious and moral instruction in schools --- 1939-1954
- Folder 14: Correspondence re: court trials of Christian converts (homicide, divorce, and bigamy) --- 1923-1934
- Folder 15: Correspondence re: Italian missionaries in Nigeria --- 1937
- Folder 16: Correspondence re: Ethel P. Miller --- 1927-1947
- Folder 17: Correspondence, International Missionary Council (IMC) --- 1926-1927
- Folder 18: Correspondence re: complaints against Christians in Kabba Province --- 1917-1920
Browse by Series:
[Series 1: Research Correspondence, 1905-1954],
[
Series 2: Research Reports, 1894-1958],
[
Series 3: Research Articles, 1960-1987],
[
Series 4: Research Papers, 1907-1993],
[
Series 5: Research Miscellaneous Materials, 1890-1993],
[
Series 6: Research Books and Dissertations, 1896-2004],
[
All]
