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Imperial reckoning : the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya Cover Image Book Book

Imperial reckoning : the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya

Elkins, Caroline. (Author).

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.

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  • ISBN: 9780805067804
  • ISBN: 0805067809
  • ISBN: 0805076530
  • ISBN: 9780805076530
  • Physical Description: print
    xvi, 475 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2005.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-449) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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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