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Author Dilley, Roy, 1954- author.

Title Nearly native, barely civilized : Henri Gaden's journey through colonial French West Africa (1894-1939) / by Roy Dilley.

Publication Info. Boston : Brill, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource.
text file
Series African history ; volume 3
African history (Brill Academic Publishers) ; v. 3.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary Nearly Native, Barely Civilized by Roy Dilley offers an in-depth, intimate and rounded biography of Henri Gaden (1867-1939), an exceptional colonial soldier, ethnographer and linguist, lover, father, administrator and Governor, who lived for 45 years in French West Africa.
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Subject Gaden, Henri, 1867-1939.
Gaden, Henri, 1867-1939.
Colonial administrators -- Africa, West -- Biography.
Colonial administrators.
West Africa.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Linguists -- Biography.
Linguists -- Biography.
Africa, West -- Politics and government -- 1884-1960.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1884-1960
Subject Mauritania -- Biography.
Mauritania.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Dilley, Roy, 1954- Nearly native, barely civilized. 9789004250963 9004250964 (DLC) 2013040482
ISBN 9789004265288 (electronic book)
9004265287 (electronic book)
9789004250963 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9004250964 (paperback ; alkaline paper)