The Mau Mau War In Perspective

Author : Frank Furedi
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038608506

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The Mau Mau War in Perspective by Frank Furedi Pdf

The book breaks new ground in following the story of the participants of the rural movement during the decade after the defeat of the Mau Mau. New archival sources and interviews provide exciting material on the mechanics of the sociology of decolonization and on the containment of rural radicalism in Kenya. For the first time an account of decolonization in Kenya based on primary sources is offered to the reader. The Mau Mau was militarily crushed in the mid-fifties, but the struggle for land rights was only contained in the post independence era of Kenya. Kikuyu squatters on European estates who formed the backbone of this movement are the main subject of this book. Furedi's account considers how the radicalization of rural protest in the so-called White Highlands led to the Mau Mau explosion and how it was sustained during the subsequent fifteen years. The book establishes a focus for discussion of these critical events through exploring the relationship between rural resistance and decolonization. The author argues that the main issue facing post-colonial policies in Kenya was to resolve the problems raised by the Mau Mau revolt. Written from an interdisciplinary perspective, with a special emphasis on historical and political sociology, this book is aimed at students of African politics and political sociologists interested in rural revolution and revolt.

Author : Frank Furedi
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015015497830

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The Mau Mau War in Perspective by Frank Furedi Pdf

The book breaks new ground in following the story of the participants of the rural movement during the decade after the defeat of the Mau Mau. New archival sources and interviews provide exciting material on the mechanics of the sociology of decolonization and on the containment of rural radicalism in Kenya. For the first time an account of decolonization in Kenya based on primary sources is offered to the reader. The Mau Mau was militarily crushed in the mid-fifties, but the struggle for land rights was only contained in the post independence era of Kenya. Kikuyu squatters on European estates who formed the backbone of this movement are the main subject of this book. Furedi's account considers how the radicalization of rural protest in the so-called White Highlands led to the Mau Mau explosion and how it was sustained during the subsequent fifteen years. The book establishes a focus for discussion of these critical events through exploring the relationship between rural resistance and decolonization. The author argues that the main issue facing post-colonial policies in Kenya was to resolve the problems raised by the Mau Mau revolt. Written from an interdisciplinary perspective, with a special emphasis on historical and political sociology, this book is aimed at students of African politics and political sociologists interested in rural revolution and revolt.

Author : Frank Füredi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Kikuyi (African people)
ISBN : 9966469621

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The Mau Mau War in Perspective by Frank Füredi Pdf

Author : Caroline Elkins
Publisher : Random House
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781448162734

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Britain's Gulag by Caroline Elkins Pdf

Only a few years after Britain defeated fascism came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya - a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom. The draconian response of Britain's colonial government was to detain nearly the entire Kikuyu population of 1.5 million and to portray them as sub-human savages. Detainees in their thousands - possibly a hundred thousand or more - died from exhaustion, disease, starvation and systemic physical brutality. For decades these events remained untold. Caroline Elkins conducted years of research to piece together this story, unearthing reams of documents and interviewing several hundred Kikuyu survivors. Britain's Gulag reveals, for the first time, the full savagery of the Mau Mau war and the ruthless determination with which Britain sought to control its empire.

Author : Wunyabari O. Maloba
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0852557450

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Mau Mau and Kenya by Wunyabari O. Maloba Pdf

Widens the debate about the Mau Mau revolt and adds an African voice to the examination and interpretation of an important event in African history. Maloba examines the part played by Mau Mau in Kenyan nationalism and its independence movement. Wunyabari Maloba is Associate Professor of History and Coordinator of the African Studies Program, University of Delaware North America: Indiana U Press

Author : Daniel Branch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0521130905

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Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya by Daniel Branch Pdf

This book details the devastating Mau Mau civil war fought in Kenya during the 1950s and the legacies of that conflict for the post-colonial state. As many Kikuyu fought with the colonial government as loyalists joined the Mau Mau rebellion. Focusing on the role of those loyalists, the book examines the ways in which residents of the country's Central Highlands sought to navigate a path through the bloodshed and uncertainty of civil war. It explores the instrumental use of violence, changes to allegiances, and the ways in which cleavages created by the war informed local politics for decades after the conflict's conclusion. Moreover, the book moves toward a more nuanced understanding of the realities and effects of counterinsurgency warfare. Based on archival research in Kenya and the United Kingdom and insights from literature from across the social sciences, the book reconstructs the dilemmas facing members of society at war with itself and its colonial ruler.

Author : Huw C. Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107029705

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Fighting the Mau Mau by Huw C. Bennett Pdf

This new study of Britain's counterinsurgency campaign in Kenya examines the difference between official and accepted methods of conquering insurgents.

Author : Caroline Elkins
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1429900296

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Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins Pdf

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 people's ultimately successful bid for Kenyan independence. Caroline Elkins, an assistant professor of history at Harvard University, spent a decade in London, Nairobi, and the Kenyan countryside interviewing hundreds of Kikuyu men and women who survived the British camps, as well as the British and African loyalists who detained them. The result is an unforgettable account of the unraveling of the British colonial empire in Kenya-a pivotal moment in twentieth- century history with chilling parallels to America's own imperial project. Imperial Reckoning is the winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction.

Author : Sharon Macdonald,Pat Holden,Shirley Ardener
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0299117642

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Images of Women in Peace and War by Sharon Macdonald,Pat Holden,Shirley Ardener Pdf

As warriors, freedom fighters and victims, as mothers, wives and prostitutes, and as creators and members of peace movements, women are inevitably caught up in the net of war. Yet women's participation in warfare and peace campaigns has often been underestimated or ignored. Images of Women in Peace and War explores women's relationships to war, peace, and revolution, from the Amazons, Inka and Boadicea, to women soldiers in South Africa, Mau Mau freedom fighters and the protestors at Greenham Common. The contributors consider not only the reality of women's participation but also look at how their actions have been perceived and represented across cultures and through history. They examine how sexual imagery is constructed, how it is used to delineate women's relation to warfare and how these images have sometimes been subverted in order to challenge the status quo. The book raises important questions about whether women have a special prerogative to promote peace and considers whether the experience of motherhood leads to a distinctive women's position on war. The authors find that their analyses lead them to deal with arguments on the basic nature of the sexes and to reevaluate our concepts of "peace," "war," and "gender."

Author : Hourly History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798696797724

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Mau Mau Rebellion by Hourly History Pdf

Discover the remarkable history of the Mau Mau Rebellion...The Mau Mau Rebellion took place in Kenya, beginning in 1952. A group of native Kenyan peoples, mostly from the Kikuyu tribe, rose up against their British colonizers, who had held the region since 1895. With a complicated story, it can be difficult to place the Mau Mau Uprising within the larger history of Kenyan nationalism and nationhood. Regardless of nuance, though, its importance in the history of Kenya, Africa, and British colonialism cannot be understated. This is the complete history of the Mau Mau Rebellion. Discover a plethora of topics such as Background and Causes The Desire for Freedom The British Respond: Operation Anvil Brutality and War Crimes The End of the Rebellion Legacy And much more! So if you want a concise and informative book on the Mau Mau Rebellion, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!

Author : Fabian Klose
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812244953

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Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence by Fabian Klose Pdf

Based on previously inaccessible material from international archives, Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence examines the relationship between emerging human rights concepts after 1945 and repressive British and French actions against anticolonial movements in Africa.

Author : Laura Lee P. Huttenbach
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780896804883

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The Boy Is Gone by Laura Lee P. Huttenbach Pdf

A story with the power to change how people view the last years of colonialism in East Africa, The Boy Is Gone portrays the struggle for Kenyan independence in the words of a freedom fighter whose life spanned the twentieth century’s most dramatic transformations. Born into an impoverished farm family in the Meru Highlands, Japhlet Thambu grew up wearing goatskins and lived to stand before his community dressed for business in a pressed suit, crisp tie, and freshly polished shoes. For most of the last four decades, however, he dressed for work in the primary school classroom and on his lush tea farm. The General, as he came to be called from his leadership of the Mau Mau uprising sixty years ago, narrates his life story in conversation with Laura Lee Huttenbach, a young American who met him while backpacking in Kenya in 2006. A gifted storyteller with a keen appreciation for language and a sense of responsibility as a repository of his people’s history, the General talks of his childhood in the voice of a young boy, his fight against the British in the voice of a soldier, and his long life in the voice of shrewd elder. While his life experiences are his alone, his story adds immeasurably to the long history of decolonization as it played out across Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

Author : Michael Mwenda Kithinji,Mickie Mwanzia Koster,Jerono P. Rotich
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137558305

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Kenya After 50 by Michael Mwenda Kithinji,Mickie Mwanzia Koster,Jerono P. Rotich Pdf

This book explores the journey that Kenya has travelled as a nation since its independence on December 12, 1963. It seeks to advance understanding of the country's major milestones in the postcolonial period, the challenges and the lessons that can be learned from this experience, and the future prospects.

Author : Robert Ruark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Kenya
ISBN : 1571572805

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Something of Value by Robert Ruark Pdf

Peter McKenzie is a professional hunter in colonial Kenya whose idyllic life is disrupted by the Mau Mau Emergency. The emergency puts a severe strain on the lives of farmers in rural areas, including McKenzie and his new bride, and he and his fellow farmers and hunters are forced to kill Mau Maus rather than buffalo and elephant.

Author : Jomo Kenyatta
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1978-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789966566102

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Facing Mount Kenya by Jomo Kenyatta Pdf

Facing Mount Kenya, first published in 1938, is a monograph on the life and customs of the Gikuyu people of central Kenya prior to their contact with Europeans. It is unique in anthropological literature for it gives an account of the social institutions and religious rites of an African people, permeated by the emotions that give to customs and observances their meaning. It is characterised by both insight and a tinge of romanticism. The author, proud of his African blood and ways of thought, takes the reader through a thorough and clear picture of Gikuyu life and customs, painting an almost utopian picture of their social norms and the sophisticated codes by which all aspects of the society were governed. This book is one of a kind, capturing and documenting traditions fast disappearing. It is therefore a must-read for all who want to learn about African culture.