colonial administrator

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Scientists frequently urged travelers and colonial administrators operating on the imperial frontier to collect skulls.
What furthered discontent among them and in turn caused them to harden their positions was the support given by colonial administrators to their opponents.
Many of the authors have done research colonial administrators did not do, for example on the agricultural calendar.
Where states previously existed, colonial administrators endowed preexisting chiefs with colonial-backed authority as the rulers of their communities.
When called upon to arrive at a conclusive and universally applicable definition, colonial administrators found it presented problems of conceptualization and consensus.
French colonial administrators charged with overseeing the operation of these courts were surprised with the number of women seeking divorce.
Like many colonial administrators, his discourse reflected the tension between a belief in economic liberalism and a desire for racial order.
They also addressed twentieth-century encounters with missionaries, merchants, concessionaires and colonial administrators.
Disciples even refused to accompany colonial administrators who, sometimes, came to inspect the compound without notice.
The rulers installed by colonial administrators were also given new powers as the formal arbiters of disputes.
It was consolidated because colonial administrators supported indigenous chiefs and men in general in their attempt to keep women in the rural economy.
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