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 2: Research Reports --- 1894-1958

Box 3

Folder 1: Reports, articles, minutes, letters, and yearbook re: Sudan Interior Mission (SIM) --- 1894-1982

Folder 2: Reports, and annual summaries re: Benue, Illorin, Adamawa, Kabba, Plateau, Bauchi, and other mission areas --- 1907-1934

Folder 3: Report, resolutions, minutes

Item 1: “Resolutions Adopted by the Missionary Conference by the Missionary Conference at Lokoja, July 1910, 1913”
Item 2: “Minutes of Conference of Continuation Committee of Lokoja Conference 1919”
Item 3: “Minutes of Conference of Missions in Northern Provinces Nigeria 1926”
Item 4: “Minutes of Conference of Missions in Northern Provinces Nigeria 1929”
Item 5: “Minutes of Conference of Missions in Northern Provinces Nigeria 1932”
Item 6: “Report of the Christian Council of Nigeria, April 1^st - 4^th, 1932”

Folder 4: Report, re: conflict between Christian and pagan customs in court cases --- 1920-1937

Folder 5: Report: "On a Tour in Nigeria in 1924," by Davies, Sudan Political Service --- [1924?]

Folder 6: Report: "Report on Education in the Northern Provinces, by A. G. Fraser with supporting papers --- 1927

Folder 7: Report: "Northern Provinces: Nigeria Summary of Intelligence Reports for the Quarter Ended 30th" --- June, 1929

Folder 8: Report: SIM Intelligence Reports --- 1930

Folder 9: Report: [Intelligence Reports --- 1931?]

Folder 10: Report: “Northern Provinces: Nigeria Summary of Intelligence Reports for the Quarter Ended 31^st March 1932” --- March 1932

Folder 11: Report: "Relationship between Government and the Missions and Other Voluntary Societies in Regard to Development Plans" --- 1945

Folder 12: Report summaries: Nigerian Political Intelligence --- 1946

Folder 13: Reports: "Benue Province Annual Report -1946" --- 1947

Folder 14: Reports: "Annual Reports - Resident Ilorin Mission Entries (Education), 1923-1940," summaries and listing of residents, 1921-1955 --- [1955?]

Item 1: "Resident Ilorin Mission Entries (Education), 1923-1940,”
Item 2: summaries and listing of residents, 1921-1955, --- [1955?]

Folder 15: Report: Nigeria: Report of the Commission Appointed to Enquire into the Fears of Minorities and the Means of Allaying Them, Part IV "The Northern Region," pp. 52-73, presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for the Colonies by Command of Her Majesty --- July 1958