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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... London, where files stuffed with dusty, yellowed memos and reports told a seductive story about Britain's civilizing mission during the last years of colonial rule in Kenya. According to the documents, the detention camps were not meant ...
... London. After years of combing through what remains in the official archives, I discovered that there was a pattern to Britain's cleansing of the records. Any ministry or department that dealt with the unsavory side of detention was ...
... London to find a reliable group of people to develop the colony's production, make use of the railway for export, and pay back the unprecedented sum of public capital that seemed to have been so unwisely invested. Various options were ...
... London and throughout the empire the various levels of 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 ...
... London were rare. Intervention from the Colonial Office would be most significant at the beginning and end of empire, or in the structuring and dismantling of a colonial government on the ground. In the intervening years several major ...
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 |