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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... violence against backward peoples under the cloak of protective civilisation. —CAPTAIN RICHARD MEINERTzHAGEN" LIKE SO MANY OTHER AREAS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, EAST AFRICA was opened to colonial domination with the building of railroads ...
... nineteenth century. The British military launched punitive expeditions that established an enduring pattern of virulent racism and white violence, and their social acceptability within the 2 i M. P. E. R. i. A. L. R. E. cook on 1 N. G.
The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya Caroline Elkins. racism and white violence, and their social acceptability within the colony. Francis Hall, an officer in the Imperial British East Africa Company, initiated a series of raids ...
... violent action. The militant wing was able successfully to link Kikuyu urban and rural discontent. Preferring violent means, they began to replace earlier constitutional methods of reproach, such as those advocated by Kenyatta and his ...
... violence quickened not only in the White Highlands, where the remaining squatters, frustrated at every turn, saw hope in the militants' demands for land and freedom, but also in Nairobi, where the conditions of the urban poor steadily ...
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 |