André Clément Henri Adam (30 July 1911, in

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) was a French colonial researcher and professor specialized in the social sciences, letters, Arabic, and North Africa. He wrote extensively on

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, publishing a two volume study of the city's transformation with contact with the west entitled '' Casablanca: essai sur la transformation de la société marocaine au contact de l'Occident'', and a general history of the city up to 1914 entitled '' Histoire de Casablanca: des origines à 1914''.

Education

He studied literature at l’École normale supérieure (1933), earned a diploma from l’École libre des sciences politiques (1935), and earned an Agrégation de Lettres (1936). He also held a certification in Standard Arabic from '' L’Institut des hautes-études marocaines'' (1942), and a in letters and human sciences from

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with high honors (1968).

Career

He was appointed to work for the '' Direction générale des affaires indigènes du Maroc'' of the

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(1943–1945) and was made an honorary reserve captain. He served in various civil roles as a professor agrégé in Rabat 1937, Fes 1941, and at '' L’Institut des hautes études marocaines'' in Rabat (1946–1949). He served as the director of '' L’École marocaine d’administration'' 1955–1960, also in Rabat. He taught as a professor of sociology at the Faculty of Letters at

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until 1970. He was named professor emeritus at

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(1980). His publications on Casablanca, '' Casablanca: essai sur la transformation de la société marocaine au contact de l'Occident'' and '' Histoire de Casablanca: des origines à 1914'', are heavily cited by authors writing later about the city, such as Abdallah Laroui,

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, and Susan Gilson Miller.

Publications

* ''Casablanca : essai sur la transformation de la société marocaine au contact de l'Occident.'' Paris : C.N.R.S., 1968 * ''Histoire de Casablanca : des origines à 1914.'' Gap : Ophrys, 1968

Awards

Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and Civil society, civil. Currently consisting of five cl ...

* ''

Ordre national du Mérite The (; ) is a French order of merit with membership awarded by the President of the French Republic, founded on 3 December 1963 by President Charles de Gaulle. The reason for the order's establishment was twofold: to replace the large number of ...

'' * ''Officier de l’Académie'' 1949 *

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1962

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Adam, Andre 1911 births 1991 deaths 20th-century French writers Academic staff of Aix-Marseille University Academic staff of Paris Descartes University École Normale Supérieure alumni Paris-Sorbonne University alumni French academics French ethnologists French historians French sociologists French anthropologists People from Saint-Lô Historians of Africa Recipients of the Legion of Honour Recipients of the Ordre national du Mérite Recipients of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques