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Genre/Form: | Nonfiction History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Caroline Elkins |
ISBN: | 0805076530 9780805076530 0805080015 9780805080018 9780805067804 0805067809 |
OCLC Number: | 55884905 |
Awards: | Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, 2006 |
Description: | xvi, 475 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
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. |
Responsibility: | Caroline Elkins. |
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Abstract:
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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