Imperial Reckoning The Untold Story of the End of Empire in Kenya

Name: Imperial Reckoning The Untold Story of the End of Empire in Kenya
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ISBN: 9780805076530

ISBN-10: 0805076530

ISBN-13: 9780805076530

Edition: 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Caroline Elkins

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A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in Kenya As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya's largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu-some one and a half million people. The compelling story of the system of prisons and work camps where thousands met their deaths has remained largely untold-the victim of a determined effort by the British to destroy all official records of their attempts to stop the Mau Mau uprising, the Kikuyu…

Book details

List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 1/11/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 496
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.96" long x 1.53" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English




Pax Britannica



Britain's assault on Mau Mau



Screening



Rehabilitation



The birth of Britain's gulag



The world behind the wire



The hard core



Domestic terror



Outrage, suppression, and silence



Detention exposed



The operating pipeline circa January 1956