Andrew E. Barnes Collection, 1894-2004 | Heritage Hall, Hekman Library

By Ed Gerritsen, 2011

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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],
[All]

Series 4: Research Papers --- 1907-1993

Box 5

Folder 1: Papers: Government of the Federation of Nigeria National Archives, "Education and Missionary Work" --- 1907

Folder 2: Paper: "Jesus Christ's Visit to Earth (Nigeria)" --- 1938

Folder 3

Item 1: Paper: "A Historical Study of Lugard's Educational Policy in Nigeria, 1900-1906, 1912-1918," by S. S. Waniko --- 1961
Item 2: Photocopy, Lugard, the Years of Authority 1898-1945, Margery Perham, Collins, London, pp. 489-511 --- 1960

Folder 4: Paper: "To God be the Glory: Pastor Inusa Samuel's Story," translated by Albert Diamond --- [1963]

Folder 5: Paper: "African Attitudes to 'Western Education' in Northern Nigeria, 1900-1940," by James P. Hubbard --- 1972

Folder 6: Paper: "A Short History of ECWA in Nupeland," by Frank Goertz Patigi --- 1983

Folder 7: Paper: "Emirates Resistance to the Colonial conquest of Sokoto Caliphate: The Case of Keffi," by Atiku Garba Yahaya --- 1993

Folder 8: Paper: "The Origins of Northern Nigerian Language Policy: Lugard and Hausa (1900-1906)," by John Edward Philips --- [1993]

Folder 9: Paper: "The Impact of Caliphal Administration on the Early British Colonial Polices, c. 1903-1914," by S. U. Balogun --- 1993

Folder 10: Paper: "Commercial Development of the North: Company and Government Relations, 1900-1906," by Ken Swindell --- 1993

Folder 11: Paper: "The Usmanuya System, Radicalism and the Planting of Colonial Rule in Northern Cameroon, 1890-1907," by Martin Z. Njeuma --- 1993

Folder 12: Paper: "History of Islamic Political Propaganda in Nigeria," anonymous --- undated

Folder 13: Papers

Item 1: "History of the Kaltungo Church, 1917-1959" by Eva Doerksen --- undated
Item 2: "Karga," notes by C. G. Beacham --- undated

Folder 14: Paper: [History of Africa Evangelistic Mission, 1905-1927] --- undated