Imperial Reckoning : : the Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
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Call Number: 967.62 El, Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / Africa / Kenya
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch
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1. Pax Britannica -- 2. Britain's assault on Mau Mau -- 3. Screening -- 4. Rehabilitation -- 5. The birth of Britain's gulag -- 6. The world behind the wire -- 7. The hard core -- 8. Domestic terror -- 9. Outrage, suppression, and silence -- 10. Detention exposed -- App. The operating pipeline circa January 1956.
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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PUBLISHED
New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2006, ©2005.
Year Published: 2005
Description: xvi, 475 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780805080018
0805076530
SUBJECTS
Kikuyu (African people) -- History -- 20th century.
Prisons -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century.
Political prisoners -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century.
Kenya -- History -- Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960.