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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55884905 Title: Imperial reckoning : the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya Author: Caroline Elkins Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2005. ISBN/ISSN: 0805076530 9780805076530 0805080015 9780805080018 9780805067804 0805067809 OCLC:55884905

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

Author:	Caroline Elkins
Publisher:	New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2005.
Edition/Format:	Print book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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 Read more...
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Subjects	Kenya -- History -- Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960 -- Prisoners and prisons, British. Kikuyu (African people) -- History -- 20th century. Prisons -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	History Nonfiction
Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Caroline Elkins Find more information about:
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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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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