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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
Published Boston : Brill, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series African history ; volume 3
African history (Brill Academic Publishers) ; v. 3.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Gaden, Henri, 1867-1939.
SUBJECT Gaden, Henri, 1867-1939 fast
Subject Colonial administrators -- Africa, West -- Biography
Linguists -- Biography
HISTORY -- Africa -- West.
Colonial administrators
Linguists
Politics and government
SUBJECT Africa, West -- Politics and government -- 1884-1960. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001710
Mauritania -- Biography
Subject West Africa
Mauritania
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013040482
ISBN 9789004265288
9004265287