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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 5: Research Miscellaneous Materials --- 1890-1993
- Box 6
- Folder 1: Material re: spheres of influence of missionary societies in Nigeria --- 1911-1953
- Folder 2: Material re: Tijani in Nigeria --- 1924-1925
- Folder 3: Material re: Munshi tribe and cannibalism --- 1926-1930
- Folder 4: Material re: Roman Catholic missionary activities in Kabba Province --- 1932-1949
- Folder 5: Material re: tribal and social organization, and history of Lafia Emirate --- 1933-1951
- Folder 6: Material re: conflict with the school in Odudaje between Methodist and Catholic missionaries --- 1935
- Folder 7: Material re: Donald Cameron's pagan policy --- 1937
- Folder 8: Periodical: The Church Missionary Gleaner [various issues] --- 1890-1892
- Folder 9: Interviews conducted by A. H. M. Kirk-Greene
- Item 1: F. D. Hibbert and R. E. Ellison --- 1969
- Item 2: J. H. Carrow --- 1971
- Folder 10: Interviews: edited transcripts of oral interviews conducted with Joseph Maguire by Andrew E. Barnes --- 1992-1993
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]
