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Author Elkins, Caroline.

Title Imperial reckoning : the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya / Caroline Elkins.

Imprint New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  967.6203 El52i 2005    ---  Available
 Axe Kansas Collection Harmon  967.6203 El52i 2005 c.2  ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st ed.
Description xvi, 475 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-449) and index.
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.
Subject Kenya -- History -- Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960.
Kikuyu (African people) -- History -- 20th century.
Prisons -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century.
Political prisoners -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 0805076530
9780805076530
0805067809
9780805067804
Standard No. 9780805067804
NLGGC 265873843
YDXCP 2128742

 
    
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