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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

A. E. Afigbo. Men of Two Continents: An African Interpretation

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