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Imperial reckoning, the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, Caroline Elkins

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Imperial reckoning, the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, Caroline Elkins

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [433]-449) and index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Imperial reckoning

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electronic resource eBook

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bibliographydictionaries

Responsibility statement

Caroline Elkins

Sub title

the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya

Summary

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 story of the system of prisons and work camps where thousands met their deaths has remained largely untold, because 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.--Publisher

Table Of Contents

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

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