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African Proconsuls. European Governors in Africa.
L.H. Gann & Peter Duignan, eds.

New York/London/Stanford. The Free Press/Collier Macmillan Publishers & Hoover Institution. 1978. 548 pages


Contents

Contributors
Preface
Introduction

France

  • William B. Cohen. The French Governors
    • The Development of the Office
    • The Powers of the Governor
    • Recruitment
    • Patronage
    • The Personality of the Governor
    • Residencies, Rewards, and Emoluments
    • Social Life
    • Retirement
    • A Balance Sheet
  • Leland C. Barrows. Louis-Léon César Faidherbe (1818-1889)
    • Background, Education, and Early Military Career
    • Algerian and Colonial Assignments
    • Proconsul and Soldier in West Africa
    • Administrative and Educational Innovator
    • Commanding General of the Army of the North
    • Public Offices
    • The Scholar
    • Conclusion
  • Virgil L. Matthew, Jr.Joseph Simon Gallieni (1849-1916)
    • Early Life, 1849-1876
    • West Africa, 1877-1881
    • West Africa, 1886-1888
    • Indochina 1892-1896
    • Madagascar, 1896-1899
    • Madagascar, 1900-1905
    • France,1905-1916
    • Conclusion
  • Henri Brunschwig.Louis Gustave Binger (1856-1936)
    • The Soldier
    • The Explorer
    • The Governor
    • The Businessman
    • Conclusion
    • Notes on Sources
  • G. Wesley Johnson, Jr.William Ponty and Republican Paternalism in French West Africa (1866-1915)
    • Early Career
    • Governor of the French Sudan
    • Governor-general of West Africa
    • Economic and Administrative Achievements
    • Achievements in Native and Military Policy
    • Personal Life and Conclusion
  • Brian Weinstein. Governor-general Félix Eboué (1884-1944)
    • Colonial Beginnings
    • Early Days in Ubangui-Shari, 1909-1931
    • The West Indies, 1932-1934
    • Sudan Interim, 1934-1936
    • Guadeloupe, 1936-1938
    • Chad, 1939-1940
    • Governor-general of French Equatorial Africa, 1940-1944
    • Eboué, the Symbol
  • William B. Cohen.Robert Delavignette: The Gentle Ruler (1897-1976)
    • Childhoold and Early Career
    • Roi de la Brousse
    • Metropolitan Service
    • Ecole Coloniale
    • High Commissioner
    • Delavignette and Decolonization
    • Conclusion

Great Britain

  • Anthony H. M. Kirk-Greene.On Governorship and Governors in British Africa
    • The Office of Colonial Governor
      • Number and Title of Governorships
      • Ranking and Emoluments of Governors
      • Government House and Its Staff
      • History of the Office of Governor
      • The Governor’s Functions
      • Pomp and Circumstance
    • Administration of the Colony
      • Relations with the Colonial Office
      • Relations with the Legislature
      • Relations with the Colonial Administration
      • Relations with Nonofficials
      • Relations with Africans
      • Relations with Other Governors
    • The Governor’s Office Reviewed
    • The Person of the British Colonial Governor
    • The Selection of Governors
      • Honors
      • The Governor’s Wife
  • Conclusion
  • John E. Flint. Frederick Lugard: The Making of an Autocrat (1858-1943)
    • Early Career
    • Uganda Pioneer
    • Royal Niger Company
    • West African Frontier Force
    • Conquest in Norther Nigeria
    • Paper Autocracy
    • Nigerian Unification
    • Lugard the Proconsul
    • Retirement
  • Harry A. Gailey. Sir Hugh Clifford (1856-1941)
    • Southeast Asia and the West Indies
    • Gold Coast
    • Nigeria
    • The Final Years
  • Peter Duignan.Sir Robert Coryndon: A Model Governor (1870-1925)
    • Background and Training
    • Governor of Uganda
    • Governor of Kenya
    • Imperial Trusteeship
    • Coryndon and the East African Federation
    • Coryndon as Developer
    • Coryndon’s Death
  • Ronald Robinson. Sir Andrew Cohen: Proconsul of African Nationalism (1909-1968)
    • Beginnings
    • Early Career, 1934-1939
    • The War Years
    • Postwar Development in the Colonial Office
      • Cohen’s Plan for Decolonization
      • Reaction to the Plan
    • African Independence
    • A Governorship and the End of Cohen’s Career

Belgium

  • L. H. Gann. Belgian Administration in the Congo: An Overview
  • Bruce Fetter. Martin Rutten (1876-1944)
    • Background and Education
    • African Career
      • Early Responsibilities
      • Elisabethville
      • Congo Administrator
    • Influence on Social and Economic History
    • Influence on Governmental and Administrative History
    • Major Achievements
    • Career Upon Retirement
    • Conclusion
  • William B. Norton. Pierre Ryckmans (1891-1959)
    • Leopold, the Belgians, and the Congo, 1890-1927
    • Ryckmans and Africa, 1891-1934
    • Ryckmans, Belgium, and the Congo, 1934-1946
      • Administrative Structure
      • World War II
      • Postwar Congo Policy
    • Ryckmans, the United Nations, and the Congo, 1946-1958
    • Postscript

Portugal

  • Douglas L. Wheeler. Portuguese Colonial Governors in Africa, 1870-1974
    • Governorships and Power Sharing
    • The Colonial Governors: Backgrounds and Relationships
    • The Colonial Governors in Perspective
  • Douglas L. Wheeler. Joaquim Mousinho de Albuquerque (1855-1902)
    • Background for a colonial career, 1855-1890
    • Colonial career in Africa, 1890-1898
      • The Hero-Soldier as Administrator, 1896-1898
    • Soldier in the Wilderness, 1898-1902
    • The Colonial Soldier Sanctified, 1926-1955
    • Conclusion
  • Douglas L. Wheeler. José Norton de Matos (1867-1955)
    • Background, 1867-1912
    • Governor-General of Angola, 1912-1915
    • Cabinet-Minister and Politician, 1915-1921
    • High-Commissioner and Governor-General of Angola, 1921-1926
    • Senior Colonialist and Oppositionist
    • Norton de Matos in Perspective

Germany

  • L. H. Gann. German Governors: An Overview
    • German Governors: Background and Functions
  • Woodruff D. Smith. Julius Graf Zech auf Neuhofen (1868-1914)
    • Zech’s Early Career
    • The Foundation of Zech’s Policy, 1903-1910
    • Economic Policy
    • Political and Legal Reforms
    • Zech’s Place in Colonial History
  • L. H. Gann Heinrich Schnee (1871-1949)
    • Origins and Training
    • District Officer
    • Metropolitan Bureaucrat
    • Top of the Tree
    • Governor at Peace
    • Governor at War
    • Publicist and Politician

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