Adams (Wallace E.) papers, 1900-1978

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Title:
Wallace E. Adams papers
Dates:
1900-1978
Creators:
Adams, Wallace E. (Wallace Earl), 1926-
Abstract:
Notes, drafts, photocopies of French governmental documents, computer data cards, press summaries, and printed matter, relating to French politics and foreign policy during the Third and Fourth Republics, and especially to the career of the French politician André Tardieu. Mostly research material for the doctoral dissertation by W. E. Adams, "André Tardieu and French Foreign Policy, 1902-1919" (Stanford University, 1959). Includes some original notes by Tardieu.
Extent:
20 manuscript boxes, 2 card file boxes, 1 oversize box (9.0 Linear Feet)
Language:
In English and French
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Wallace E. Adams papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Background

Scope and content:

The Wallace E. Adams papers in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives consist primarily of Adams's writings and the research materials he accumulated over an academic career devoted to 20th century French history and, in particular, the career of the French politician André Tardieu. There is also a considerable amount of materials relating to Adams's service in France as an aid official with the United States of America Operations Mission to France, a successor to activities of the Marshall Plan.

Adams completed his doctoral dissertation on Tardieu at Stanford University, and continued to conduct research on Tardieu's role in French politics, especially in relation to French colonial policies in Africa, thereafter. He collected a number of primary sources, including some of Tardieu's notebooks and unpublished writings, which form a separate series within the collection (see ANDRÉ TARDIEU FILE). There is a good deal of material in the collection relating to the so-called N'Goko Sangha affair in French West Africa and its possible impact on the origins of World War I, including copies of company records and official correspondence (see RESEARCH MATERIALS).

As a graduate student, Adams had become interested in the possibilities afforded by computers to quantify trends in modern French politics. RESEARCH MATERIALS contains Adams's work in this regard, including statistical analyses of parliamentary voting records and government instability during the French Third Republic.

The series concerning Adams's service in France during the 1950s contains press summaries and other materials that provide information on American perceptions of French politics and economic life during a period of Cold War tensions (see UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OPERATIONS MISSION TO FRANCE FILE).

Biographical / historical:
Date Event
1926
Born, Silverton, Oregon
1949
Bachelor of Science degree, University of Oregon
1951-1954
Special assistant to the Executive Officer, United States of America Operations Mission to France
1958-1962
Assistant professor of European history, Arizona State University
1959
PhD, Stanford University
1962
Visiting professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
1963-1970s
Professor, Arizona State University
Acquisition information:
Acquired.
Physical location:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by David Jacobs
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-02-01 09:27:55.665073

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Wallace E. Adams papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of this collection:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US
Contact:
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