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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... colony. Francis Hall, an officer in the Imperial British East Africa Company, initiated a series of raids against the ... colony's production, make use of the railway for export, and pay back the unprecedented sum of public capital that ...
... colony's central government. From London's perspective, the governor was the most important man on the spot. In Kenya's case he was in charge of devising and implementing policies in his colony; he was responsible for his various ...
... colony's limited resources, demanding infrastructure like schools, roads, and hospitals, though offering little in return. In contrast, the settlers arriving from Britain were some of the most aristocratic immigrants ever to populate ...
... colony. On their estates or farms or in European neighborhoods in Nairobi, every white settler in the colony was a ... colony's settlers were notorious worldwide for their sexual high jinks, and the running joke in Britain became, “Are ...
... colony's laws and regulations. Once the British colonial government decided to base Kenya's economy on the production of export commodities from the settler estates, it agreed in principle to ensuring that there would be ample land and ...
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 |
Other editions - View all
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 |