Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in KenyaA major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in Kenya |
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... Britain's civilizing mission during the last years of colonial rule in Kenya. According to the documents, the detention camps were not meant to punish the rebellious Kikuyu but rather to civilize them. Behind the barbed wire, colonial ...
... British colonial rule. Officially, fewer than one hundred Europeans, including settlers, were killed and some eighteen hundred loyalists died at the hands of Mau Mau. In contrast, the British reported that more than eleven thousand Mau ...
... British East Africa Company, initiated a series of raids against the Kikuyu and remained so incensed by their ... colonial government decided to launch a campaign to attract settlers of British stock to the colony, people who could ...
... British colonial government were always to “trust the man on the spot.” This made great sense considering the enormity of Britain's imperial holdings; any form of micromanagement from London would have been financially and ...
... Colonial Office would be most significant at the beginning and end of empire, or in the structuring and dismantling of a colonial government ... British colonial rule. They were responsible for the day-to-day imposition of colonial authority ...
Contents
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THREE SCREENING | 62 |
FOUR REHABILITATION | 91 |
FIVE THE BIRTH OF BRITAINS GULAG | 121 |
SIX THE WORLD BEHIND THE WIRE | 154 |
SEVEN THE HARD CORE | 192 |
EIGHT DOMESTIC TERROR | 233 |
EPILOGUE | 354 |
APPENDIX THE OPERATING PIPELINE CIRCA JANUARY 1956 | 369 |
NOTE ON METHODS | 371 |
NOTES | 377 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 433 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 451 |
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS | 457 |
INDEX | 459 |
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Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya Caroline Elkins Limited preview - 2005 |
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya Caroline Elkins Limited preview - 2005 |
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya Caroline Elkins No preview available - 2005 |