Figures in a Spare Landscape: Serving In The Twilight Of Empire, Bornu Province, Nigeria, 1959-60 Contributor(s): Judd, Peter Haring (Author) |
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ISBN: 1947980580 ISBN-13: 9781947980587 Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil OUR PRICE: $38.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - West |
Dewey: 966.903 |
LCCN: 2018018937 |
Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6" W x 9" (1.40 lbs) 266 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - West Africa |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Peter Judd is always a rewarding historian. His latest work, Figures in a Spare Landscape, benefits from the same strengths as his other works: historical modesty and a devotion to the close study of unconventional sources. In this case, Judd's source is himself. Based on diaries kept while he was teaching in Bornu Province, Nigeria, the book understands its position very clearly. Judd's position in Nigeria was that of a white, upper-class, very well-educated American man who was teaching in Nigeria because he was interested and motivated by ideals, but also because he wasn't sure what to do at "home". |
Contributor Bio(s): Judd, Peter Haring: - Peter Haring Judd graduated from Harvard College AB cum laude in 1954; he served two years in the US Army as an enlisted man in Staff Communications at the Pentagon. In 1959-60 he served as Education Officer in the Northern Region of Nigeria, assigned to the Provincial Secondary School, Maiduguri. In 1962 he published African Independence: the exploding emergence of the new African nations, a mass-market paperback that sold tens of thousands of copies. (New York: Dell Publishing Co, 1962), For a list of contributors see References supra. He earned a PhD from the Department of Political Science at Columbia University in 1970, with a dissertation, "British Perspectives on the United States, 1840-1860." |