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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... Christian sect that had reverted to tactics of primitive terror to interrupt the British civilizing mission in Kenya. Mau Mau seized the world's attention in the early 1950s, not just in Britain and the Commonwealth countries but also ...
... Christianity and the destruction of the slave trade. It would also make it easier to counter any possible foreign invasion into Uganda, with its precious Nile headwaters. In one of the more foolish and paranoid scenarios ever imagined ...
... Christian values, and economic knowhow, the British instead had a duty, a moral obligation, to redeem the “backward heathens” of the world. In Africa the British were going to bring light to the Dark Continent by transforming the so ...
... Christian scene, establishing mission stations—which included churches, schools, and medical clinics—condemning the heathenism of Kikuyu religious and cultural practices, and preaching the values of Christianity, commerce, and ...
... Christian agitators. It became the duty of the British colonial government to protect the hapless Africans from these troublemakers. In hindsight it is difficult to assess how much British colonial officials actually believed their own ...
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 |